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Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.0-rc2 (UPDATEDx2)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2022,

updated Aug 22, 2022

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It's Sunday afternoon (ok,early evening, just randomly doing this a

bit later than usual), and there's a new rc out.

Nothing particularly interesting here, rc2 tends to be fairly calm

with people taking a breather and not yet having found a lot of bugs.

The most noticeable fix in here is likely the virtio reverts that

fixed the problem people had with running tests on the google cloud

VMs, which was the "pending issue" that we had noticed just as the

merge window was closing. And it's noticeable - and notable - mainly

because that problem then kept people from running some of the

automated tests and thus finding other issues.

But obviously there's a lot of other things in here too, as per the

appended shortlog. The diffs are somewhat dominated by the amd gpu

fixes - they missed the "drm fixes" pull during the merge window, so

there were a bunch of fixes pending on that side. But there's some

network driver fixes, some filesystem fixes (btrfs and a late ntfs3

half-fixes-half-updates pull), and the usual set of architecture fixes

and other core code (mainly networking).

And some tooling fixes - a mix of selftests and perf.

Go forth and test,

          Linus

Read on

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UPDATE Now in LWN.

Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc2

=> ↺ Kernel prepatch 6.0-rc2

The second 6.0 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "The most noticeable fix in here is likely the virtio reverts that fixed the problem people had with running tests on the google cloud VMs, which was the 'pending issue' that we had noticed just as the merge window was closing".

This evening there's more from David Delony.

Linux Kernel Development Zooms Along With 6.0 Release Candidate 2

=> ↺ Linux Kernel Development Zooms Along With 6.0 Release Candidate 2

Just a week after announcing the first Linux 6.0 release candidate, Linus Torvalds is back with the second release candidate for the Linux kernel.

What's Changed in the Linux 6.0 Release Candidate 2?

Torvalds once again downplayed the significance of the release.

"Nothing particularly interesting here, rc2 tends to be fairly calm with people taking a breather and not yet having found a lot of bugs," he wrote in a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List

Still, the release candidate does come with the usual round of bug fixes. Torvalds noted updates that smoothed out problems running tests on Google cloud virtual machines.

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