Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"

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.

Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5" In working toward releasing the stable 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 Linus Torvalds wrote in today's There are 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 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 7.2-rc5 announcement :"It's Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5. The 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. There 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 . And then there's everything else: tooling selftest and perf , fielsystems smb, btrfs , rust and arch fixes, documentation... So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary." There are