ONGOING DEVELOPMENT
L inus Torvalds announced Linux 5.15-rc1 (Release Candidate 1), noting that at just over 10,000 non-merge (non-administrative) commits, it is “in fact the smallest rc1 we have had in the 5.x series. We’re usually hovering in the 12-14k commit range”. He called out the new (writable) support for NTFSv3, as well as support for an in-kernel SMB (Windows network filesystem) driver that aims to play nice with the userspace Samba project and its utilities.