Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed [1]Linux 6.13 merge window.

It was a busy week of bug fixing for Linux 6.13 before the holiday season hits full swing. Among the fixes this week for Linux 6.13-rc2 are [2]addressing intermittent responsiveness issues on Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops .

Linus Torvalds wrote in the [3]6.13-rc2 announcement :

"The diffstat looks a bit unusual with 80%+ drivers, and a lot of it one-liners, but that's actually just because of a couple of automated scripts that got run after -rc1 for some cleanups. Nothing particularly interesting, but it makes for a lot of noise in the diff.

That said, there are real fixes in there too, but nothing that looks hugely remarkable. The shortlog below gives a flavor of it all. That's m ostly drivers too, but there's networking and bpf and some arch updates too.

Please do keep testing, and then we can all take it a bit easier over the holidays."

See the [4]Linux 6.13 feature list to learn about all of the exciting changes coming in this next major kernel release. Linux 6.13 stable should be out around the end of January.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.13

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc2-x86-urgent

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgDe9JfGynY9KQ1exkL0DM-cyLYdeYdOxbCXNHm=qAgSQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-613-features