Linux 6.12-rc3 is out today as expected as the newest weekly release candidate in working [1]Linux 6.12 toward a stable release in November.

With Linux 6.12-rc3 there is a lot more bug/regression fixing to land as more developers and users test out this latest kernel code. The quality of Linux 6.12 is all the more important with this kernel version expected to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) version in being the last feature version of 2024.

Of note in Linux 6.12-rc3 are [2]some late NTFS kernel driver improvements for that NTFS3 read/write driver code. There weren't any NTFS3 changes submitted during the Linux 6.12 merge window but Linus Torvalds ended up allowing this late pull request to land.

Linus Torvalds wrote in today's [3]6.12-rc3 announcement that: " everything looks normal. We've got all

the usual driver updates (gpu and networking dominating as usual, but there's some minor updates in USB, fbdev, mmc, thermal...), some filesystem fixes (xfs, smb client, and ntfs3), some core networking, and some tooling (selftests and some perf trace include file refresh). And the usual random noise elsewhere (io_uring, scheduler, some MM noise). "

See the [4]Linux 6.12 feature overview to learn more about all of the changes in this next major kernel version.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.12

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Better-NTFS

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg061j_0+a0wen8E-wxSzKx_TGCkKw-r1tvsp5fLeT0pA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-features