Linux 5.12-rc7
Oh well. rc5 was big. rc6 was small. And now rc7 is big again. In fact, it's the biggest rc7 (at least in number of commits) we've had in the 5.x series. It's mostly due to networking fixes (of which rc6 had none), and none of them should be all that scary, but it's never great when we have such a big rc. It's particularly annoying at the end of the release window like this. End result: I'm still waffling about the final 5.12 release. The fact that we have a big rc7 does make me think that I'll probably do an rc8 this time around. But it ends up depending a bit on how the upcoming week goes, and if things are deathly quiet, I may end up deciding that an rc8 doesn't really make sense. So we'll see. Anyway, networking (both core and drivers) is over half of the rc7 patch, with the rest being a fairly random collection of fixes all over. We've got other driver updates (sound, rdma, scsi, usb..) some fs fixes (io_uring, umount, btrfs, cifs, ocfs), minor arch fixes (arc, arm, parisc, powerpc, s390, x86), and other misc fixes. The shortlog is appended, although it's obviously not as nice and small and readable as I'd have liked at this point in the release.. Please do test, Linus
Also: Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern
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