>> ONGOING DEVELOPMENT
Linus Torvalds announced the first few Release Candidate snapshots of what will become Linux 6.1, noting, “This isn’t actually shaping up to be a particularly large release.” He drew attention to the “initial Rust scaffolding” but noted there was “no actual real Rust code in the kernel yet”. He also noted he had experienced some downtime because his main development machine (which was not using ECC memory, something people drew attention to) had “suddenly started showing memory problems”. Initially, he had assumed it was a kernel bug and spent time chasing after a bug that turned out not to be there.