Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"
Linux 7.2-rc3 changes this week include adding Ultra RISC-V support to the RISC-V default kernel configuration, SEGA Dreamcast driver fixes, display detection improvements to help out some multi-GPU systems, and marking Nick Desaulniers' return to LLVM Linux development. Plus the wide assortment of various bug/regression fixes -- including various AI-assisted patches.
Linus Torvalds wrote in the 7.2-rc3 announcement:
"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."
See our Linux 7.2 feature overview for a look at all the interesting changes coming to this next kernel version. Linux 7.2 is also what's set to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 this autumn.
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