Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable [1]Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August.

Linux 7.2-rc3 changes this week include [2]adding Ultra RISC-V support to the RISC-V default kernel configuration , [3]SEGA Dreamcast driver fixes , [4]display detection improvements to help out some multi-GPU systems , and [5]marking Nick Desaulniers' return to LLVM Linux development . Plus the wide assortment of various bug/regression fixes -- including various AI-assisted patches.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the [6]7.2-rc3 announcement :

"Things continue to look normal (the "new normal" with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation).

About half the changes are to drivers - spread all over. Yes, there's GPU and networking as always, but there's a fair amount of other misc driver noise too.

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes.

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange."

See our [7]Linux 7.2 feature overview for a look at all the interesting changes coming to this next kernel version. Linux 7.2 is also what's set to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 this autumn.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.2

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-UltraRISC-RISC-V

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-SEGA-Dreamcast

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Multi-GPU-Fix

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nick-Desaulniers-LLVM-Linux

[6] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi=XhN+0QM4qxnP+Hyq_iVbfvYaM4-RVwtT8pO=+PLTxg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-features