Kernel Watch
Jon Masters summarises the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so that you don’t have to.
L inus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 5.19-rc6, which he hopes to be one of the final “Release Candidate” (RC) kernels prior to the final 5.19 release. His eagerness showed, as his announcement mail noted, “Perhaps somewhat unusually, I picked up a few fixes that were pending in trees that haven’t actually hit upstream yet.” If things go according to plan, we’ll see the opening of the “merge window” (period of time during which disruptive changes are accepted into the kernel) for what will likely be the last 5.x release (5.20) and have a subsequent summary of new features next month.