Linux 6-0-rc5 released in another week of quiet kernel development

Linux 6.0-rc5

We will have to knock on wood so that things do not go wrong, because many times we see how something follows a trend that changes at the least expected moment. Linus Torvalds is developing a future version of the kernel, he has already released 5 Release Candidates and calm has reigned in all of them. A few hours ago he launched Linux 6.0-rc5, and the message he sent looks like a carbon copy of the one he sent seven days earlier to rc4.

Like last week, the message sent is terse, and for the second week in a row we don't see anything related to size in it. And it is that, in addition to regressions and other types of problems that can cause the kernel to lose its shape, Torvalds pays a lot of attention to size to know if things are going well or not. That he does not allude to it must mean that everything is going smoothlyJust the way you always like it.

Linux 6.0-rc5, apparent calm

It's Sunday afternoon, time for another -rc release. Things look pretty normal for the rc5 timeframe, at least in number of commits, and in diffstat. A little more than half of the diff are drivers: GPU, rdma, iommu, networks, sound, scsi... A bit of everything. The rest are the usual random fixes, most notably updates to i2c docs, but also various DT updates, some filesystem fixes (btrfs and erofs), some core networking, and some tools (perf and selftests ). Nothing seems especially scary, so go right in.

Right now, and apparently during the last month, nothing suggests that something is going to happen that makes it necessary to release the eighth RC reserved for problematic versions, so the stable version of Linux 6.0 should arrive on October 2. Of course, as long as nothing ugly happens in the next versions. It is almost 100% confirmed that Ubuntu 22.10 will use Linux 5.19, so those who want to use it will have to do the manual installation or use tools like Mainline.


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