Linux 6.0 will be releasing in early October and is packing many exciting improvements as noted in the Linux 6.0 feature overview . There is a lot of work on new AMD and Intel product support, a variety of other support additions,
This past week marked 31 years since Linus Torvalds announced his start of the Linux kernel. He commented in the 6.0-rc3 announcement:
So as some people already noticed, last week was an anniversary week - 31 years since the original Linux development announcement. How time flies.
But this is not that kind of historic email - it's just the regular weekly RC release announcement, and things look pretty normal. We've got various fixes all over the tree, in all the usual places: drivers (networking, fbdev, drm), architectures (a bit of everythinig: x86, loongarch, arm64, parisc, s390 and RISC-V), filesystems (mostly btrfs and cifs, minor things elsewhere), and core kernel code (networking, vm, vfs and cgroup).
And some tooling support (perf and selftests).
We've got a few known issues brewing, but nothing that looks all that scary. Knock wood.
The list of Linux 6.0-rc3 patches can be found via the kernel mailing list .