Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape"
([Linux Kernel] 5 Hours Ago
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-rc7-Released
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The seventh weekly release candidate of [1]Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week.
Linux 6.16-rc7 was just tagged by Linus Torvalds to facilitate another week of bug/regression testing with a collection of all the fixes for the past week. Being merged for Linux 6.16-rc7 include [2]more Bcachefs fixes , [3]a fix for some older AMD Radeon GPUs producing a lot of log spam after resuming from suspend , and a fix for [4]possible bogus / miscalculated load averages due to an incorrect change merged to the Linux kernel back in 2021. Plus an assortment of other random bug/regression fixes across the board.
Linus Torvalds wrote in the [5]6.16-rc7 announcement :
"So last week started very quiet and that always makes me happy. Then on Thursday I started getting some updates, and I went "ok, so at least we have some networking fixes", but things otherwise still felt like this was going to be a tiny rc7.
And then Friday came along.
And the weekend.
And here we are, with a not inconsiderable rc7.
That said, the last few days I ended up getting a fair amount of pull requests, but pretty much all of them were tiny. A lot of single-fix pulls, and while rc7 isn't the tiny release it looked like mid-week, it's also not really any bigger than usual.
So there are fixes all over, they are all pretty small.
Nothing really stands out - the biggest patches in here are for some documentation and self-tests or tooling, not actual kernel code
changes.
So unlike the week before, it all feels very trivial and I think we're in good shape. Knock wood."
Linux 6.16 will be out in the next week or two with [6]its many great new features and changes . After that it's onto the very exciting [7]Linux 6.17 merge window. Linux 6.17 in turn is what's expected to power the likes of Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 at launch.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.16
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Linux-6.16-rc7
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fixing-AMD-Polaris-Spam
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-rc7-sched-urgent
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgdXcZfQEL2Xa+GEEtcC7Ez9SEWnGaB76R76VZsYcMOnA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
[6] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-616-features
[7] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.17
Linux 6.16-rc7 was just tagged by Linus Torvalds to facilitate another week of bug/regression testing with a collection of all the fixes for the past week. Being merged for Linux 6.16-rc7 include [2]more Bcachefs fixes , [3]a fix for some older AMD Radeon GPUs producing a lot of log spam after resuming from suspend , and a fix for [4]possible bogus / miscalculated load averages due to an incorrect change merged to the Linux kernel back in 2021. Plus an assortment of other random bug/regression fixes across the board.
Linus Torvalds wrote in the [5]6.16-rc7 announcement :
"So last week started very quiet and that always makes me happy. Then on Thursday I started getting some updates, and I went "ok, so at least we have some networking fixes", but things otherwise still felt like this was going to be a tiny rc7.
And then Friday came along.
And the weekend.
And here we are, with a not inconsiderable rc7.
That said, the last few days I ended up getting a fair amount of pull requests, but pretty much all of them were tiny. A lot of single-fix pulls, and while rc7 isn't the tiny release it looked like mid-week, it's also not really any bigger than usual.
So there are fixes all over, they are all pretty small.
Nothing really stands out - the biggest patches in here are for some documentation and self-tests or tooling, not actual kernel code
changes.
So unlike the week before, it all feels very trivial and I think we're in good shape. Knock wood."
Linux 6.16 will be out in the next week or two with [6]its many great new features and changes . After that it's onto the very exciting [7]Linux 6.17 merge window. Linux 6.17 in turn is what's expected to power the likes of Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 at launch.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.16
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Linux-6.16-rc7
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fixing-AMD-Polaris-Spam
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-rc7-sched-urgent
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgdXcZfQEL2Xa+GEEtcC7Ez9SEWnGaB76R76VZsYcMOnA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
[6] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-616-features
[7] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.17
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