Tux Machines

Linux 6.3-rc4 (UPDATED)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2023,

updated Mar 28, 2023

Things are looking pretty normal for this time of the release process.

All the stats look very regular, and the diffstat mostly does too.

I say "mostly", just because we had a bunch of xfs fixes last week,

which makes the diffstat skew that way more than usual. But even that

is mainly for a self-test addition. The actual code changes are much

smaller.

So instead of the usual 50+% drivers, the rc4 diffstat is about "one

third drivers, one third filesystems, one third rest". Not all of the

filesystem stuff is xfs, of course - we have cifs, btrfs and ksmbd

fixes too.

On the driver side, it's a mix, but networking and gpu shows up as

usual. With USB and thunderbolt fixes showing up, and the rest being

fairly random.

And "the rest" is all the normal stuff. Self-tests, core networking,

architecture updates, nothing odd there.

Let's hope things stay normal. And, as normal, testing and reporting

issues is appreciated,

Read on

UPDATE

In LWN:

Linus has released 6.3-rc4 for testing. ""Things are looking pretty normal for this time of the release process.""