Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) on Nostr: #Linux 6.18-rc7 is out: ""So the rc6 kernel wasn't great: we had a last-minute core ...

#Linux 6.18-rc7 is out:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiFS7=wrjCoEguQUqwd=L4tJHNP8mCdagg0FR8NQTGLtw@mail.gmail.com/

""So the rc6 kernel wasn't great: we had a last-minute core VM regression that caused people problems.

That's not a great thing late in the release cycle like that, but it was a fairly trivial fix, and the cause wasn't some horrid bug, just a latent gotcha that happened to then bite a late VM fix. So while not great, it also doesn't make me worry about the state of 6.18. We're still on track for a final release next weekend unless some big new problem rears its ugly head.

And rc7 is also a much smaller set of changes than what we had in rc6, which again makes me think we're in good shape. […]

Summary appended below, let's use this last week of the release to
make sure we got any random stragglers,

Linus""

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