Building off last Sunday's inaugural release candidate of [1]Linux 6.12 , Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel a few minutes ago.

Linux 6.12-rc2 brings fixes for early fallout and regressions stemming from the recently merged feature code.

Among the patches this week were [2]expanding Arm's Speculative SSBS workaround to more CPUs including the Cortex-A715, Neoverse-N3, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 cores.

Over on the Intel side, Linux 6.12-rc2 brings [3]more early enablement work around the Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids next-generation server processors.

Linux 6.12-rc2 also contains [4]more Bcachefs fixes following that mailing list drama over the weekend.

Plus an assortment of other bug fixes throughout the massive kernel codebase.

See our [5]Linux 6.12 feature overview for a look at all of the major changes coming to this new kernel version. Linux 6.12 stable should be out around mid-November and will likely serve as this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.12

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-More-Arm-SSBS

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Diamond-Rapids-More-6.12

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Two-Choices

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-features