{"slug": "linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5", "title": "Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: \"Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5\"", "summary": "Linux 7.2-rc5 was released Sunday with a large patch set, driven in part by AI/LLM agents discovering bugs, according to Linus Torvalds. The release includes extensive networking fixes, audio driver updates, and a fix for a Firewire IPv4 issue present since 2009.", "body_md": "# Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: \"Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5\"\n\nIn working toward releasing the stable\n\nLinux 7.2-rc5 brings a variety of bug fixes, many of which continue to turn up via AI/LLM agents. Linux 7.2-rc5 brings\n\nLinus Torvalds wrote in today's\n\nThere are\n\n[Linux 7.2](https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.2)kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version.Linux 7.2-rc5 brings a variety of bug fixes, many of which continue to turn up via AI/LLM agents. Linux 7.2-rc5 brings\n\n[the \"new normal\" of audio fixes](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc5-Audio-Fixes)across the board, driven on by many AI-powered discoveries and lots of quirky hardware out there. Linux 7.2-rc5 also[fixes an issue in the IEEE-1394 Firewire IPv4 networking](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Fix-IPv4-Firewire)that has existed in the mainline Linux kernel since 2009.Linus Torvalds wrote in today's\n\n[7.2-rc5 announcement]:\"It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5.\n\nThe same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the \"new normal\". But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side.\n\nThere are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that's something. But there's a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire - you get the idea).\n\nAnd then there's everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation...\n\nSo it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.\"\n\nThere are", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5", "canonical_source": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc5-Released", "published_at": "2026-07-26 22:05:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-26 22:25:11.436185+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Linux 7.2-rc5", "Linus Torvalds", "IEEE-1394 Firewire"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5.jsonld"}}