was sung. It could have been different, but the winter holidays slowed things down a lot for a while, so this kernel version was one of those that called for another week of pampering. linus torvalds launched a few hours ago Linux 6.2-rc8, and it is not that there was a really striking reason, but it was something that he had said many times and in the end it fulfilled what was expected.
in this last week everything has been very quiet, as in all the development of this version, but it is not the calm that the Finnish developer likes. It is one thing that there are no problems, and another that the job has not been done. To release a stable version you have to do a minimum, and that minimum has been completed with the release of Linux 6.2-rc8.
Linux 6.2 is coming February 19
The 6.2 series is still pretty quiet, and the only real reason for an rc8 is - as mentioned several times already - to catch up on vacation time. Not that we really needed it, but there was no real reason to deviate from the plan either. So here we are. And we had a few late regression fixes, and a couple still pending that we'll hopefully make it over the next week, so absolutely no damage done.
Most of the discussion I see seems to have already been about things to come, and I also already have a pull request for the next merge window in my inbox (and I won't care if more show up). But in the meantime we've had a scattering of the usual fixes, with the network, GPU, and sound drivers being the most notable. As usual.
If nothing very strange happens during this week, Linux 6.2 will arrive next Sunday day 19 February. Already at the end of March or beginning of April the beta of Ubuntu 23.04 will be launched, and it will already include this kernel.