Tux Machines

Linux 6.5-rc7 (UPDATED)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2023,

updated Aug 21, 2023

So it's Sunday afternoon, just not in the usual timezone where I do

these releases, since I've been traveling.

But apart from the timezone difference, everything looks entirely

normal. Drivers (GPU, networking and sound dominate - the usual

suspects, in other words) and architecture fixes. The latter are

mostly arm devicetree fixlets, but also some x86 cleanups and fallout

from the embargo last week.

Not a huge amount of patches, and I really get the feeling that a lot

of maintainers are on vacation. But I will be optimistic and also

blame it all being quiet on things working fairly well.

So I think this will be the last rc unless something nasty comes up.

Do keep testing,

Linus

Read on

UPDATE

Linux 6.5-rc7 released [LWN.net]

Linus Torvalds has released the 6.5-rc7 kernel prepatch, which looks to be the final release candidate before the likely release of Linux 6.5 next Sunday.