Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.10-rc2 with a busy week's worth of fixes.

Collected this week for Linux 6.10-rc2 is [1]fixing issues for Intel Quark SoCs and (separately) old AMD CPUs , [2]a new means of dealing with quirky touchscreens , [3]a lot of Bcachefs patches , [4]limiting TPM HMAC encryption to x86_64 by default , and [5]a cpupower tool fix for AMD Zen 5 CPUs , among other fixes.

Linus Torvalds wrote in today's [6]6.10-rc2 announcement :

"One third driver fixes, one third filesystems, and one third "random leftovers".

The driver side is sound, networking, nvme, gpu and "misc". The filesystem fixes are mostly bcachefs, but there's some other noise in there too. And the random stuff is the usual mix of arch updates, core networking, seltftests, io_uring, header file fixes etc etc.

Nothing feels particularly odd, but rc2 is usually fairly small and people are only starting to find regressions."

Linux 6.10 stable should be out by mid-July. See the [7]Linux 6.10 feature overview for a look at all of the exciting changes coming to this next kernel release.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc2-x86-urgent

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Easier-Quirky-Touch

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Look-Toward-Linux-6.11

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/TPM-HMAC-Encrypt-x86_64

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-cpupower-Fix-AMD-Zen-5

[6] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wisJ8bS3qe6iBPwL9x=PqJA5oE7tum-E9oZfyPgd2mmrw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-610-features