In the past week We talked from a third Release Candidate that wasn't the size it should be. It should be a little bigger, but the size was maintained, something that is not usual since it is when they usually find and correct bugs. Yesterday Sunday afternoon, Linus Torvalds He launched Linux 5.19-rc4, and we cannot say that it is much larger than normal, so its future is uncertain.
Still Linux 5.19-rc4 does is larger than previous Release Candidates, and it's also bigger than you usually see at this point in development. The father of Linux says that no size record has been broken, so he seems calm. Otherwise, it would be news.
Linux 5.19-rc4 grows
And while the 5.19-rc4 is a bit bigger than the previous ones, and it's a bit bigger than we usually see at this point, it's nowhere near record size. So it's more of a "a little bigger than usual" than a "OMG, this is huge." The changes are also pretty spread out, and nothing really stands out. I think the individually largest patches are the reverts to printk's threading changes that people really wanted to give some more thought to, as the changes had caused some issues. The rest of the diffstat is _pretty_ flat, perhaps highlighting the vc4 drm patches.
Linux 5.19-rc4 is the fourth Release Candidate in this series. The stable version will arrive on 24 July if only 7 are released and a week later, or two, if it doesn't come into shape in time. Ubuntu users interested in installing it will eventually have to do it on their own, using tools like Umki, formerly known as Ukuu.