Despite the fact that we have been through the first versions of its development, the journey to Linux 5.2 had been sailing through calm waters. Linus Torvalds had found himself so calm that, in previous weeks, he had even mentioned his travels and sporting events so that the content of his weekly note had some content. That is something that you did not need this week (whose note should appear here) because they have encountered problems in the development of Linux 5.2-rc6.
The truth is that you don't have to worry too much either. Yes they will delay the launch of rc7But because Torvalds is still traveling and he won't be able to check his mail as much as he would like. In fact, the father of Linux says he will become completely incommunicado this week. All the hustle and bustle these days have caused the rc6 to be launched on Saturday and not on Sunday as usual.
Linux 5.2-rc6 is the largest of the entire series
Torvalds expected that the size of this version of the kernel would continue to be reduced, but this week he wanted to have his share of the limelight and has denied this possibility. This rc6 is the biggest (the second if we count rc1) so far, partly because of all the requests made by the developer community during the week. The size increase came not only from small patches, but from TCP SACK / fragmentation / mss fixes, which also needed its own patches.
To the fortune and joy of Torvalds, they caught it in time, partly thanks to kernel patches delivered by distributions for your operating systems. They have also had something to do with the problems related to the Steam client, aSomething that doesn't make you feel very good about it at this point in the release cycle.
Linux 5.2-rc6 also includes the usual: network news, driver updates, etc. Summarizing, this has been the busiest week since rc1, but they have managed to catch it all in time for everything to run its course. If they are not going to meet the deadlines, it is because the father of Linux has to travel, so the release of the final version will be delayed. In any case, the important thing is that all the bugs are corrected before the launch is official.
