Linux 6.16-rc7 was just tagged by Linus Torvalds to facilitate another week of bug/regression testing with a collection of all the fixes for the past week. Being merged for Linux 6.16-rc7 include more Bcachefs fixes , a fix for some older AMD Radeon GPUs producing a lot of log spam after resuming from suspend , and a fix for possible bogus / miscalculated load averages due to an incorrect change merged to the Linux kernel back in 2021. Plus an assortment of other random bug/regression fixes across the board.
Linus Torvalds wrote in the 6.16-rc7 announcement :
"So last week started very quiet and that always makes me happy. Then on Thursday I started getting some updates, and I went "ok, so at least we have some networking fixes", but things otherwise still felt like this was going to be a tiny rc7.
And then Friday came along.
And the weekend.
And here we are, with a not inconsiderable rc7.
That said, the last few days I ended up getting a fair amount of pull requests, but pretty much all of them were tiny. A lot of single-fix pulls, and while rc7 isn't the tiny release it looked like mid-week, it's also not really any bigger than usual.
So there are fixes all over, they are all pretty small.
Nothing really stands out - the biggest patches in here are for some documentation and self-tests or tooling, not actual kernel code
changes.
So unlike the week before, it all feels very trivial and I think we're in good shape. Knock wood."
Linux 6.16 will be out in the next week or two with its many great new features and changes . After that it's onto the very exciting Linux 6.17 merge window. Linux 6.17 in turn is what's expected to power the likes of Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 at launch.