A couple of weeks ago, someone on the core development team made a mistake, delivered some stuff out of time, and everything started to overflow. Linus Torvalds seemed calm, as always, as he knew what was going on and foresaw the future. In that future, everything would start to fall into place. week 3And with Linux 6.1-rc4 «things seem to have started to calm down«.
So much so that in el correo that you have sent, the recently overcome problems are not even mentioned, the note being totally normal, as if none of this had happened. Torvalds ends by saying that "the water is fine“, in part by inviting this Release Candidate to try out those who might have waited a bit longer to avoid bumping into a bad version.
Linux 6.1-rc4: "water is fine"
So, as expected (and expected), things seem to be starting to settle down, and rc4 is a pretty normal size for this stage of the process.
The diffstat looks pretty normal too - mostly nice and flat (so little changes spread out), with a spike from a FW update to drm/amdkfd. The other thing that stands out is a stricter check of the xfs count and related fixes (. And some new clx tests. But even these aren't huge, they just show up in the stats.
The shortlog (attached) doesn't look scary either. It's all the usual: drivers, file systems, architecture updates, some networking, and random little things elsewhere.
So please go ahead, the water is fine. But more evidence is always welcome.
Linux 6.1 should arrive on december 4, a week later in the unlikely event that something went wrong. Ubuntu users who want to install it will have to do it on their own, either by hand or using tools like Mainline. Ubuntu 23.04 will arrive with Linux 6.2.