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¿Qué cambia en Linux 7.2 y por qué esta versión importa más que nunca? #Linux #Linux72 #OpenSource #SoftwareLibre #KernelLinux #Tecnologia #AMD #Intel #RaspberryPi #USB4 #AppleM3 #InteligenciaArtificial #Programacion #felizviernes #21deagosto

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¿Qué cambia en Linux 7.2 y por qué esta versión importa más que nunca? #Linux #Linux72 #OpenSource #SoftwareLibre #KernelLinux #Tecnologia #AMD #Intel #RaspberryPi #USB4 #AppleM3 #InteligenciaArtificial #Programacion #felizviernes #21deagosto

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¿Qué cambia en Linux 7.2 y por qué esta versión importa más que nunca? #Linux #Linux72 #OpenSource #SoftwareLibre #KernelLinux #Tecnologia #AMD #Intel #RaspberryPi #USB4 #AppleM3 #InteligenciaArtificial #Programacion #felizviernes #21deagosto

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¿Qué cambia en Linux 7.2 y por qué esta versión importa más que nunca? #Linux #Linux72 #OpenSource #SoftwareLibre #KernelLinux #Tecnologia #AMD #Intel #RaspberryPi #USB4 #AppleM3 #InteligenciaArtificial #Programacion #felizviernes #21deagosto

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#Linux :tux: 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-2-bringt-umfangreiche-Treiberupdates-11419043.html #Linux72 #OpenSource

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#Linux :tux: 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-2-bringt-umfangreiche-Treiberupdates-11419043.html #Linux72 #OpenSource

#Linux :tux: 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-7-2-bringt-umfangreiche-Treiberupdates-11419043.html #Linux72 #OpenSource

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Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online
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Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online
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Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online
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Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online
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Linux 7.2 bringt umfangreiche Treiberupdates | heise online
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https://www.europesays.com/ro/265486/ Linux 7.2 este live: ce schimbări aduce noul kernel? #kernel #Linux72 #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #Technology #tehnologie

Linux 7.2 RC7 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Another week, another -rc.

I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.

And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some netfilter ipset fixes.

But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound, networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..

I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC7 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Another week, another -rc.

I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.

And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some netfilter ipset fixes.

But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound, networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..

I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC7 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Another week, another -rc.

I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.

And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some netfilter ipset fixes.

But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound, networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..

I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC7 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Another week, another -rc.

I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.

And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some netfilter ipset fixes.

But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound, networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..

I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC7 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Another week, another -rc.

I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.

And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some netfilter ipset fixes.

But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound, networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..

I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the seventh (and the last) release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the seventh release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the sixth release candidate:

• HWMON fixes for Linux 7.2 RC7
• Added support for Zenaim Leverless gaming controller for fighting games
• PTDUMP use-after-free fixes
• Various improvements made to the seventh release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the seventh (and the last) release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the seventh release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the sixth release candidate:

• HWMON fixes for Linux 7.2 RC7
• Added support for Zenaim Leverless gaming controller for fighting games
• PTDUMP use-after-free fixes
• Various improvements made to the seventh release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the seventh (and the last) release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the seventh release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the sixth release candidate:

• HWMON fixes for Linux 7.2 RC7
• Added support for Zenaim Leverless gaming controller for fighting games
• PTDUMP use-after-free fixes
• Various improvements made to the seventh release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the seventh (and the last) release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the seventh release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the sixth release candidate:

• HWMON fixes for Linux 7.2 RC7
• Added support for Zenaim Leverless gaming controller for fighting games
• PTDUMP use-after-free fixes
• Various improvements made to the seventh release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the seventh (and the last) release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the seventh release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the sixth release candidate:

• HWMON fixes for Linux 7.2 RC7
• Added support for Zenaim Leverless gaming controller for fighting games
• PTDUMP use-after-free fixes
• Various improvements made to the seventh release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC7 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC6 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Hmm. This rc is huge.  Even by the "new normal" standards this is a big rc, and I think it's the biggest rc6 we've had in years at least by commit count.

The stats don't look particularly strange: it's just under 60% drivers, 20% networking, and 20% "rest" (arch, tooling, filesystems - nothing particularly odd). And that driver side is the usual gpu and networking drivers, but not exclusively so - we have sound, spi, ata etc in there too.

So a lot of networking stuff, which is at least partly the whole continued backlog from conference timing. I hope that's all there is to this, but it is a bit unnerving how bit the changes are at this point, even if nothing in here actually looks all that strange.

There's nothing in here that screams "bad" or implies that the release needs delaying, but I sure hope we calm down for the remaining two weeks.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC6 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Hmm. This rc is huge.  Even by the "new normal" standards this is a big rc, and I think it's the biggest rc6 we've had in years at least by commit count.

The stats don't look particularly strange: it's just under 60% drivers, 20% networking, and 20% "rest" (arch, tooling, filesystems - nothing particularly odd). And that driver side is the usual gpu and networking drivers, but not exclusively so - we have sound, spi, ata etc in there too.

So a lot of networking stuff, which is at least partly the whole continued backlog from conference timing. I hope that's all there is to this, but it is a bit unnerving how bit the changes are at this point, even if nothing in here actually looks all that strange.

There's nothing in here that screams "bad" or implies that the release needs delaying, but I sure hope we calm down for the remaining two weeks.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC6 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Hmm. This rc is huge.  Even by the "new normal" standards this is a big rc, and I think it's the biggest rc6 we've had in years at least by commit count.

The stats don't look particularly strange: it's just under 60% drivers, 20% networking, and 20% "rest" (arch, tooling, filesystems - nothing particularly odd). And that driver side is the usual gpu and networking drivers, but not exclusively so - we have sound, spi, ata etc in there too.

So a lot of networking stuff, which is at least partly the whole continued backlog from conference timing. I hope that's all there is to this, but it is a bit unnerving how bit the changes are at this point, even if nothing in here actually looks all that strange.

There's nothing in here that screams "bad" or implies that the release needs delaying, but I sure hope we calm down for the remaining two weeks.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC6 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Hmm. This rc is huge.  Even by the "new normal" standards this is a big rc, and I think it's the biggest rc6 we've had in years at least by commit count.

The stats don't look particularly strange: it's just under 60% drivers, 20% networking, and 20% "rest" (arch, tooling, filesystems - nothing particularly odd). And that driver side is the usual gpu and networking drivers, but not exclusively so - we have sound, spi, ata etc in there too.

So a lot of networking stuff, which is at least partly the whole continued backlog from conference timing. I hope that's all there is to this, but it is a bit unnerving how bit the changes are at this point, even if nothing in here actually looks all that strange.

There's nothing in here that screams "bad" or implies that the release needs delaying, but I sure hope we calm down for the remaining two weeks.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC6 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Hmm. This rc is huge.  Even by the "new normal" standards this is a big rc, and I think it's the biggest rc6 we've had in years at least by commit count.

The stats don't look particularly strange: it's just under 60% drivers, 20% networking, and 20% "rest" (arch, tooling, filesystems - nothing particularly odd). And that driver side is the usual gpu and networking drivers, but not exclusively so - we have sound, spi, ata etc in there too.

So a lot of networking stuff, which is at least partly the whole continued backlog from conference timing. I hope that's all there is to this, but it is a bit unnerving how bit the changes are at this point, even if nothing in here actually looks all that strange.

There's nothing in here that screams "bad" or implies that the release needs delaying, but I sure hope we calm down for the remaining two weeks.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the sixth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the fifth release candidate:

• Fixed some AMD Zen 5 CPUs being recognized as Zen 6 CPUs
• Some Western Digital SATA Drives should work properly with driver fixes
• Some more sound fixes for more devices
• Various improvements made to the sixth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the sixth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the fifth release candidate:

• Fixed some AMD Zen 5 CPUs being recognized as Zen 6 CPUs
• Some Western Digital SATA Drives should work properly with driver fixes
• Some more sound fixes for more devices
• Various improvements made to the sixth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the sixth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the fifth release candidate:

• Fixed some AMD Zen 5 CPUs being recognized as Zen 6 CPUs
• Some Western Digital SATA Drives should work properly with driver fixes
• Some more sound fixes for more devices
• Various improvements made to the sixth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the sixth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the fifth release candidate:

• Fixed some AMD Zen 5 CPUs being recognized as Zen 6 CPUs
• Some Western Digital SATA Drives should work properly with driver fixes
• Some more sound fixes for more devices
• Various improvements made to the sixth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the sixth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 and other supported Linux version series were receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently closer to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the fifth release candidate:

• Fixed some AMD Zen 5 CPUs being recognized as Zen 6 CPUs
• Some Western Digital SATA Drives should work properly with driver fixes
• Some more sound fixes for more devices
• Various improvements made to the sixth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC6 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC5 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.

The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the "new normal". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.

There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something.  But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).

And then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...

So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC5 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.

The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the "new normal". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.

There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something.  But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).

And then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...

So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC5 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.

The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the "new normal". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.

There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something.  But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).

And then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...

So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC5 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.

The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the "new normal". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.

There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something.  But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).

And then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...

So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC5 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.

The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the "new normal". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.

There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something.  But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).

And then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...

So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC5 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fifth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made, including the sound fixes, since the fourth release candidate:

• Fixing silent streams with the Intel HDMI keep-alive silent mode. This fixes code added back in 2022 for Alder Lake and DG2/Alchemist hardware.
• A fix for detecting the internal digital microphone on the AMD-powered MSI Vector A16 HX A8WIG laptop.
• Adding some new Sound Open Firmware quirks for new Dell XPS Wildcat Lake and Dell XPS Panther Lake models to enable the sidecar amp configuration.
• The HP ZBook 8 G2a laptop needs an inverted LED quirk handling for opposite speaker mute LED polarity.
• A fixed rate quirk for the JBL Quantum650 Wireless headset.
• More pop noise quirks for the Dell Pro QC1255.
• A quirk for the HP EliteBook 830 G8 (8AB8) to enable the mute LED.
• Fixing speakers on the Lunnen Ground 14.
• Fixing speakers on the Alienware x16 R2.
• Fixing some ASUS TUF ACP70-based systems like the TUF Gaming Vivobook 18 and TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA so the SoundWire driver is properly loaded on those platforms.
• A quirk for the HP Pavilion x360 to deal with silent output.
• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fifth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made, including the sound fixes, since the fourth release candidate:

• Fixing silent streams with the Intel HDMI keep-alive silent mode. This fixes code added back in 2022 for Alder Lake and DG2/Alchemist hardware.
• A fix for detecting the internal digital microphone on the AMD-powered MSI Vector A16 HX A8WIG laptop.
• Adding some new Sound Open Firmware quirks for new Dell XPS Wildcat Lake and Dell XPS Panther Lake models to enable the sidecar amp configuration.
• The HP ZBook 8 G2a laptop needs an inverted LED quirk handling for opposite speaker mute LED polarity.
• A fixed rate quirk for the JBL Quantum650 Wireless headset.
• More pop noise quirks for the Dell Pro QC1255.
• A quirk for the HP EliteBook 830 G8 (8AB8) to enable the mute LED.
• Fixing speakers on the Lunnen Ground 14.
• Fixing speakers on the Alienware x16 R2.
• Fixing some ASUS TUF ACP70-based systems like the TUF Gaming Vivobook 18 and TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA so the SoundWire driver is properly loaded on those platforms.
• A quirk for the HP Pavilion x360 to deal with silent output.
• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fifth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made, including the sound fixes, since the fourth release candidate:

• Fixing silent streams with the Intel HDMI keep-alive silent mode. This fixes code added back in 2022 for Alder Lake and DG2/Alchemist hardware.
• A fix for detecting the internal digital microphone on the AMD-powered MSI Vector A16 HX A8WIG laptop.
• Adding some new Sound Open Firmware quirks for new Dell XPS Wildcat Lake and Dell XPS Panther Lake models to enable the sidecar amp configuration.
• The HP ZBook 8 G2a laptop needs an inverted LED quirk handling for opposite speaker mute LED polarity.
• A fixed rate quirk for the JBL Quantum650 Wireless headset.
• More pop noise quirks for the Dell Pro QC1255.
• A quirk for the HP EliteBook 830 G8 (8AB8) to enable the mute LED.
• Fixing speakers on the Lunnen Ground 14.
• Fixing speakers on the Alienware x16 R2.
• Fixing some ASUS TUF ACP70-based systems like the TUF Gaming Vivobook 18 and TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA so the SoundWire driver is properly loaded on those platforms.
• A quirk for the HP Pavilion x360 to deal with silent output.
• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fifth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made, including the sound fixes, since the fourth release candidate:

• Fixing silent streams with the Intel HDMI keep-alive silent mode. This fixes code added back in 2022 for Alder Lake and DG2/Alchemist hardware.
• A fix for detecting the internal digital microphone on the AMD-powered MSI Vector A16 HX A8WIG laptop.
• Adding some new Sound Open Firmware quirks for new Dell XPS Wildcat Lake and Dell XPS Panther Lake models to enable the sidecar amp configuration.
• The HP ZBook 8 G2a laptop needs an inverted LED quirk handling for opposite speaker mute LED polarity.
• A fixed rate quirk for the JBL Quantum650 Wireless headset.
• More pop noise quirks for the Dell Pro QC1255.
• A quirk for the HP EliteBook 830 G8 (8AB8) to enable the mute LED.
• Fixing speakers on the Lunnen Ground 14.
• Fixing speakers on the Alienware x16 R2.
• Fixing some ASUS TUF ACP70-based systems like the TUF Gaming Vivobook 18 and TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA so the SoundWire driver is properly loaded on those platforms.
• A quirk for the HP Pavilion x360 to deal with silent output.
• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC5 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fifth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fifth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made, including the sound fixes, since the fourth release candidate:

• Fixing silent streams with the Intel HDMI keep-alive silent mode. This fixes code added back in 2022 for Alder Lake and DG2/Alchemist hardware.
• A fix for detecting the internal digital microphone on the AMD-powered MSI Vector A16 HX A8WIG laptop.
• Adding some new Sound Open Firmware quirks for new Dell XPS Wildcat Lake and Dell XPS Panther Lake models to enable the sidecar amp configuration.
• The HP ZBook 8 G2a laptop needs an inverted LED quirk handling for opposite speaker mute LED polarity.
• A fixed rate quirk for the JBL Quantum650 Wireless headset.
• More pop noise quirks for the Dell Pro QC1255.
• A quirk for the HP EliteBook 830 G8 (8AB8) to enable the mute LED.
• Fixing speakers on the Lunnen Ground 14.
• Fixing speakers on the Alienware x16 R2.
• Fixing some ASUS TUF ACP70-based systems like the TUF Gaming Vivobook 18 and TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA so the SoundWire driver is properly loaded on those platforms.
• A quirk for the HP Pavilion x360 to deal with silent output.
• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC4 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal.

And by "pretty normal" I obviously mean the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes all over. It's not a small rc4.

The stats look pretty normal too, with most of it being small one- and few-liners. There's a couple of bigger fixes (can/bcm stands out for syzbot and sashiko fixes, and the selftests get some extra tests too that show up in the diffs), but nothing that looks odd. There's some larger amd gpu noise, but the size of that is largely some code movement and extra comments - and nothing like the occasional big header drops...

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC4 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal.

And by "pretty normal" I obviously mean the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes all over. It's not a small rc4.

The stats look pretty normal too, with most of it being small one- and few-liners. There's a couple of bigger fixes (can/bcm stands out for syzbot and sashiko fixes, and the selftests get some extra tests too that show up in the diffs), but nothing that looks odd. There's some larger amd gpu noise, but the size of that is largely some code movement and extra comments - and nothing like the occasional big header drops...

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC4 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal.

And by "pretty normal" I obviously mean the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes all over. It's not a small rc4.

The stats look pretty normal too, with most of it being small one- and few-liners. There's a couple of bigger fixes (can/bcm stands out for syzbot and sashiko fixes, and the selftests get some extra tests too that show up in the diffs), but nothing that looks odd. There's some larger amd gpu noise, but the size of that is largely some code movement and extra comments - and nothing like the occasional big header drops...

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC4 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal.

And by "pretty normal" I obviously mean the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes all over. It's not a small rc4.

The stats look pretty normal too, with most of it being small one- and few-liners. There's a couple of bigger fixes (can/bcm stands out for syzbot and sashiko fixes, and the selftests get some extra tests too that show up in the diffs), but nothing that looks odd. There's some larger amd gpu noise, but the size of that is largely some code movement and extra comments - and nothing like the occasional big header drops...

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC4 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal.

And by "pretty normal" I obviously mean the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes all over. It's not a small rc4.

The stats look pretty normal too, with most of it being small one- and few-liners. There's a couple of bigger fixes (can/bcm stands out for syzbot and sashiko fixes, and the selftests get some extra tests too that show up in the diffs), but nothing that looks odd. There's some larger amd gpu noise, but the size of that is largely some code movement and extra comments - and nothing like the occasional big header drops...

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fourth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fourth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the third release candidate:

• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fourth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fourth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the third release candidate:

• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fourth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fourth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the third release candidate:

• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fourth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fourth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the third release candidate:

• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to complete the release candidate cycle with the fourth release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was receiving updates to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

We are currently halfway to the stable version, because a stable version of Linux usually gets released after seven release candidates. When the fourth release candidate gets released, you’ll be able to experience some of the changes made since the third release candidate:

• Various improvements made to the fourth release candidate

Release candidate versions of Linux are available in the source code form, and you can build the kernel for your system so that you can try it out and report any bugs that manifest, especially with new hardware.

Linux 7.2 RC4 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC3 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC3 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Things continue to look normal (the "new normal" with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation).

About half the changes are to drivers - spread all over. Yes, there's GPU and networking as always, but there's a fair amount of other misc driver noise too.

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes.

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC3 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC3 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Things continue to look normal (the "new normal" with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation).

About half the changes are to drivers - spread all over. Yes, there's GPU and networking as always, but there's a fair amount of other misc driver noise too.

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes.

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC3 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC3 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Things continue to look normal (the "new normal" with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation).

About half the changes are to drivers - spread all over. Yes, there's GPU and networking as always, but there's a fair amount of other misc driver noise too.

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes.

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC3 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC3 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Things continue to look normal (the "new normal" with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation).

About half the changes are to drivers - spread all over. Yes, there's GPU and networking as always, but there's a fair amount of other misc driver noise too.

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes.

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC3 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC3 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

Things continue to look normal (the "new normal" with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation).

About half the changes are to drivers - spread all over. Yes, there's GPU and networking as always, but there's a fair amount of other misc driver noise too.

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes.

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button: