Linux 6.18-rc3 Released With Latest Fixes
The Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release in just about one month. Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel.
More bug/regression fixes poured in this week for Linux 6.18-rc3 as well as some new hardware bits. Among the Linux 6.18 changes that were on my radar this week included AWCC profile support for the Dell G15 5530 being merged since it's just a new device ID addition, EROFS driver being hardened against specially-crafted images that could lead to infinite loops or system crashes, and fixing a "serious" performance regression affecting some Intel-powered Chromebooks both for performance and power. Plus a lot more smaller more mundane fixes landed this week.
Go and grab Linux 6.18-rc3 from kernel.org. See the Linux 6.18 feature overview for more details on all of the changes expected in this next Linux kernel version.
Update: Linus Torvalds is out now with the v6.18-rc3 announcement where he added:
More bug/regression fixes poured in this week for Linux 6.18-rc3 as well as some new hardware bits. Among the Linux 6.18 changes that were on my radar this week included AWCC profile support for the Dell G15 5530 being merged since it's just a new device ID addition, EROFS driver being hardened against specially-crafted images that could lead to infinite loops or system crashes, and fixing a "serious" performance regression affecting some Intel-powered Chromebooks both for performance and power. Plus a lot more smaller more mundane fixes landed this week.
Go and grab Linux 6.18-rc3 from kernel.org. See the Linux 6.18 feature overview for more details on all of the changes expected in this next Linux kernel version.
Update: Linus Torvalds is out now with the v6.18-rc3 announcement where he added:
"Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in pull request timing rather than anything else. The diffstat certainly is pretty short and flat, I think the biggest change is from some smbdirect fixes (both client and server side), the rest really looks pretty minimal.
The high-level stats look very normal too, with half the patches being drivers (counting devicetree bindings there too), and the rest being pretty random and spread out. So we have the aforementioned smb fixes, some xfs fixes, and then random noise elsewhere."