Linus Torvalds announced additional Release Candidate kernels for Linux 6.5, noting that the “release cycle continues to look entirely normal. In fact, it’s so normal that we have hit on a very particular (and peculiar) pattern with the rc4 releases: we have had exactly 328 nonmerge commits in rc4 in 6.2, 6.3 and now 6.5. Weird coincidence.” Thorsten Leemhuis continues to post his reports on regressions, including some keyboard problems affecting Ryzen systems that were supposed to be fixed but apparently are not quite fixed yet.
“It’s going to take some time to remove something so deeply ingrained, but Christoph’s latest patches allow a kernel to be built that doesn’t use buffer_heads.”