Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.19-rc3 to ship this week's fixes. Linux 6.19-rc3 is coming in light as expected due to the Christmas week with many corporate developers getting paid time off and others taking part in year-end festivities.

Linux 6.19-rc3 ships the latest batch of bug/regression fixes in working toward the [1]Linux 6.19 stable release around early February. Among the fixes new to Linux 6.19-rc3 is [2]a fix for ARM64 EFI systems crashing at boot on Linux 6.19 due to a bad change from the v6.19 merge window.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the [3]6.19-rc3 announcement :

"Another week, another -rc release.

Except the past week has obviously been the holiday week, and this rc release is pretty small as a result. Very much as expected.

It's pretty much all drivers, with the bulk of it being GPU, sound, and some USB driver updates (mostly reverts).

And "bulk" here is very relative, because even those changes aren't all that big.

The rest is a random collection of fixes and updates, this time the shortlog below is short enough that you might as well just scroll down and scan it. TL;DR: powerpc and RISC-V updates, some filesystem noise (mostly smb and nfsd), and some virtio tooling, and random small commits.

I expect that the upcoming week is still going to be sluggish, as people are slowly getting back to normal.

I hope everybody had a good holiday break, and here's to a happy new year."

See our [4]Linux 6.19 feature/changes overview for a look at the exciting additions coming to this kernel that will debut in stable in just about one month's time.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.19

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Fix-ARM64-EFI-Crash

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiS5oGvrJRsunAGXmhcwj-J4EHKt_Y7JAH4RQeeTedCSw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-619-features-changes