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Linux 6.7-rc4 and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2023,

updated Dec 04, 2023

Linux 6.7-rc4

Another -rc with slightly odd timing due to time zones and travel

(hey, it's Sunday afternoon *somewhere* right now), but it's the last

trip of the year, so we won't be seeing any more of that.

Of course, instead of travel, we have the holidays coming up. As

usual, that makes for an interesting release cadence, but at least

this time I think the timing ends up working out, with the holidays

happening during the tail end of the release schedule.

And that "tail end of the release schedule" is while the current 6.7

release is supposed to be very quiet anyway, which sounds nice and

like it all is working out just fine from a timing perspective. But

the tail end of the release is then also when developers are supposed

to get ready for the _next_ merge window.

So while it all looks superficially convenient from a 6.7 release

schedule, it almost certainly means that we'll have to do something

about the 6.8 merge window.

We'll see. Maybe people will decide to try to get their ducks lined up

super-early for 6.8, or maybe we'll delay the next merge window or

something. I haven't decided yet, and nobody has emailed me in a panic

about it (yet).

• Anyway*, right now we're still a few weeks away from that, and this

is just the rc4 release. And things look fine for now, with a fairly

small rc4 - although that might also be due to me not being the only

developer on the road for conferences...

The appended shortlog gives the details, but the last week looks

pretty normal, with drivers dominating (drm and particularly the AMD

GPU side showing up in the diffstat). But we've got a little bit of

everything, including tooling, filesystems (bcachefs showing up, but

noise elsewhere too) and core networking. Some minor architecture

fixes too.

Please test,

Linus

6.7-rc4 and stable kernels too

Linus has released 6.7-rc4 for testing. ""And things look fine for now, with a fairly small rc4"".

Meanwhile, the 6.6.4, 6.1.65, and 5.15.141 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Linux 6.6.4

Linux 6.1.65

Linux 5.15.141

The Register:

Linus Torvalds flags holiday-mode changes to next kernel merge window

Forgive us that adaptation of Clement Clarke Moore's classic A Visit from St Nicholas, dear reader, as we present it in service of reporting Linus Torvalds pondering the impact of the festive season on future Linux kernel development.

Torvalds on Sunday delivered a fourth release candidate for version 6.7 of the Linux kernel.