Things did not look good in the middle of the development of Linux kernel v5.13, but the tortilla has been turned around. In the past week, rc6 had already started to regain shape, and that trend has continued for the next seven days, so Linus Torvalds He launched un Linux 5.13-rc7 that does not stand out for anything bad.
Torvalds is satisfied with everything that has happened in the last 15 days, and highlights that Linux 5.13-rc7 it would have been "positively small" had it not been for the part of the networks. Even so, everything seems to have returned to normality, so, at first, the possibility of launching the eighth Release Candidate is not contemplated, which is reserved for versions of the kernel that are reluctant to enter normality in time.
Linux 5.13-rc7 normal, stable release on July 4
So we've had a very quiet week, and in fact if it hadn't been for the networking part, it would have been positively small. A little over half of the commits are from the network tree, and honestly, while network changes dominate, it's not like there are a ton of network changes - it's all pretty small. The two biggest commits are a rollback and a code move patch for a build issue. So there are not a large number of patches here, and most of the patches are quite small as well. A good number of lines and "few lines."
Therefore, unless something serious does not appear this week that needs to be fixed, Linux 5.13 will arrive in the form of a stable version next Sunday. July 4. We remember that Ubuntu users who want to install it must do it on their own, since Canonical does not update the kernel until they release a new version of their operating system.