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Linux 7.2-rc4 Released: Looking Like The "New Normal"

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2-rc4 on Sunday, describing the release as the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes across the kernel. Many of the fixes were uncovered by AI and large language models, though no particularly notable changes were highlighted.

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Linux 7.2-rc4 Released: Looking Like The "New Normal"
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The fourth weekly release candidate of the

It's been another brisk week of fixes for the Linux kernel, many of which continue to be uncovered by AI/LLMs. A wide variety of different fixes were merged though not many particularly notable.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the

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Linux 7.2kernel is now available for testing.It's been another brisk week of fixes for the Linux kernel, many of which continue to be uncovered by AI/LLMs. A wide variety of different fixes were merged though not many particularly notable.

Linus Torvalds wrote in the

7.2-rc4 announcement:"This whole week I had the feeling that people were starting to go on summer vacation, but running the numbers shows that I must have been wrong - it all looks pretty normal.

And by "pretty normal" I obviously mean the "new normal" with a fair number of fixes all over. It's not a small rc4.

The stats look pretty normal too, with most of it being small one- and few-liners. There's a couple of bigger fixes (can/bcm stands out for syzbot and sashiko fixes, and the selftests get some extra tests too that show up in the diffs), but nothing that looks odd. There's some larger amd gpu noise, but the size of that is largely some code movement and extra comments - and nothing like the occasional big header drops...

Go forth and test,

Linus"

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