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Changelog?

Posted Mar 4, 2026 18:25 UTC (Wed) by mads (subscriber, #55377)
Parent article: Seven new stable Linux kernels

Doesn't Sasha post changelogs with the release announcement? Bummer..

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Posted Mar 4, 2026 18:39 UTC (Wed) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link] (3 responses)

They are really large. This is one rather big stable update :-/

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Posted Mar 4, 2026 20:15 UTC (Wed) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

These are indeed the biggies that often follow in the wake of new kernel series - in this case 6.19. I suppose even 6.18 is still relatively young and still fully stabilising, but the recent nft blip probably hasn't helped confidence. I'm sure the subsequent releases will be 'normal' sized again, and things will calm down.

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Posted Mar 5, 2026 0:57 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link] (1 responses)

> They are really large.

I don't believe you. State how large they are. (Within 10% or so is good enough.)

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Posted Mar 5, 2026 7:43 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

Over 800 patches? That's large. I think only a few releases have ever crossed the 1,000 mark.

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Posted Mar 5, 2026 1:58 UTC (Thu) by jbosboom (guest, #176381) [Link]

I don't find the "pseudo-shortlog" very useful, both because it's sorted by author and because I can't jump directly to the patch if I see an interesting subject line.

I find the easiest way to look through a stable kernel update is to search the stable list on lore.kernel.org for, e.g., 6.19.6-rc1, scroll to the very bottom and click on the stable maintainer's rc review e-mail, then go to the thread overview and click the flat link to see all the patches on one page. This puts the patches in the order they were applied, which usually puts a series of patches relating to one issue together, and lets me instantly jump to patches with interesting subjects.

An even nicer order would be to group patches by the trees they entered mainline through (using the "upstream commit abcdef" in each patch). That would highlight areas with lots of fixes and make it easier to ignore patches for platforms I don't care about. So far I've been satisfied enough with the lore listing that I haven't written a script to do that, but stable updates this large make me more interested in doing so.

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Posted Mar 5, 2026 15:14 UTC (Thu) by sashal (✭ supporter ✭, #81842) [Link]

> Doesn't Sasha post changelogs with the release announcement? Bummer..

I actually do, but I do releases so infrequently that I forgot I have to fetch my stable remote before sending mails out :(