Linux 6.2-rc3 arrives after a week that already seems normal

Linux 6.2-rc3

Well, if I'm not mistaken, and if I am, someone correct me, the Christmas period is over all over the world. I start with that because last Sunday, the first day of the year, Linus Torvalds He launched the second Release Candidate of the kernel version currently under development after considering not releasing anything. It would have been something unusual, but there was no reason. Yesterday things already seemed normal, and the Finn He launched Linux 6.2-rc3.

The email sent begins by saying just that, that things are starting to look much more normal after a week of vacation that made the rc2 so small. Still, he doesn't say that Linux 6.2-rc3 has gotten very big, so we'll probably see the increase in rc4. Or not, it's hard to know.

Linux 6.2 will arrive in February

Here we are, another week done, and things are starting to look a lot more normal after that quiet week of vacation that made rc2 so small.

Nothing in particular stands out: mostly driver fixes (networks, gpu, block, virtio, but also usb, fbdev, rdma, etc., so a bit of everything). This is how it should be, and it just matches most of the code.

Apart from the driver fixes, we have the network kernel, some filesystem (btrfs) fixes. file system (btrfs, cifs, f2fs and nfs), and some perf refinement tools.

The rest is mostly self-tests and documentation.

If the usual seven release candidates are released, Linux 6.2 will arrive next 12 February, the 19th if it requires the eighth RC reserved for releases that need more attention. Undoubtedly due to the deadlines that are handled, this will be the version used by Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster.


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