Like with last week's [1]Linux 6.11-rc5 release, Linux 6.11-rc6 is out a half-day early due to Linus Torvalds' ongoing foreign travels. Linux 6.11-rc6 brings many more fixes to this kernel that will debut as stable in mid-September,

Linux 6.11-rc6 delivers more fixes to the Bcachefs experimental file-system, [2]an important Intel Arrow Lake graphics fix , [3]preparations for more upcoming AMD Zen 5 models , [4]an AMD Preferred Core fix , and other routine fixes throughout the massive kernel codebase.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the [5]6.11-rc6 announcement about this week's test kernel:

"I'm still in an unusual timezone, but next week everything should be back to normal.

Anyway, it's definitely well past Sunday afternoon here, and thus time for the weekly rc release.

Things look pretty normal, although we have perhaps unusually many filesystem fixes here, spread out over smb, xfs, bcachefs and netfs. That said, driver fixes obviously still dominate the diffstat - "more than perhaps usual" still doesn't make the filesystem changes _that_ big. I suspect they stand out more mainly because the rest is fairly small.

Outside of drivers (all the usual suspects) and filesystems, we have various architecture fixes (although honestly, that's mostly arm64 dts files), some core networking, and some selftest updates related to that.

Nothing particularly odd stands out, please do keep testing,"

See our [6]Linux 6.11 feature overview for a look at all of the changes coming to this kernel release due out by mid-September.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-rc5-Released

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Require-Newer-ARL-GSC

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMC-Linux-6.11-More-Zen-5

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PM-Linux-6.11-rc6

[5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgumCUwjVkGREh1WwZ2ia5EqSjAQ_4wjUDw3-m0aT7KFA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-611-features