Last week, Linus Torvalds He launched the kernel rc5 currently in development. He is always calm, but he did comment that the size was very large, the largest in the history of the fifth Release Candidates, but he explained it by saying that it would have to do with the previous version being too small. Yesterday, the father of Linux He launched Linux 5.6-rc6, and the news that we can get from your short email is that everything has returned to normal.
It is a bit strange to read such a short weekly email. This time he gives few or no details, beyond mentioning that everything seems normal at this point and some changes, more specifically the usual ones: drivers, tools, networks, architecture updates and other central updates. What is not surprising is that Torvalds is calm because he absolutely always gives that impression.
Linux 5.6 will be released in two weeks
Another week, another rc. Things look normal - all stats look like at this point. The full patch has about 60% driver changes (gpu, networking, s390 stand out, but noise everywhere), with the rest being tools (mostly perf), networking, file updates (mostly x86, but some arcos, mips and s390 as well), and various kernel updates. Diffstat looks normal, and the number of commits is right in the middle of the usual range as well. And I don't think any of the commits seem very strange either, it's all pretty small.
Torvalds has not mentioned anything, but considering that we are in the sixth rc, that everything is going perfectly and that it usually releases the stable version after seven Release Candidates, everything seems to indicate that Linux 5.6 will land on March 29. That is if nothing bad happens that forces the father of Linux to launch an eighth Release Candidate, in which case Linux v5.6 would arrive on April 5.