Linux 6.3-rc2 removes the r8188eu driver in a week which seems pretty normal

Linux 6.3-rc2

After a normal two weeks in the fusion window that led to a rc1 without anything remarkableLinus Torvalds He launched yesterday Linux 6.3-rc2. The news is that this week the trend of normality has continued, apart from the fact that they have made changes to eliminate a driver and add another more appropriate one that does the same job, but a little better. Torvalds says that this change stays with 90% of everything new.

As they have removed it is the r8188eu driver, and that deletion is what makes the change count look like more than it actually is. For everything else, "normal" is a word that gets thrown around a lot, and work has been done on the GPU and networking fronts, as usual, while also making some fixes to other drivers.

Linux 6.3 will arrive at the end of April

This looks pretty normal, although if you look at the diffs, they are dominated by the removal of a staging driver (r8188eu) which has been replaced by a proper driver. That removal itself is 90% of the diffs.

But if you filter that out, everything looks normal. There are still more than two thirds in drivers, but hey, it's pretty normal. It's mostly gpu and networking as usual, but there are various other driver fixes in there as well.

Aside from the usual driver noise (and unusual driver removal noise), there's a bit of everything: networking kernel, arch fixes, documentation, file systems (btrfs, xfs and ext4, but also some bug fixes). vfs core). And io_uring and some tools.

Linux 6.3 is coming to mid/end of April, on the 23rd if the usual seven RC are thrown and 30 if an eighth is necessary. Nine has only been released on a few occasions, so it is initially out of the question. Eventually, Ubuntu users who want to install this version will have to do it on their own.


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