Kernel release status

Anyway, exactly because it's just "more than usual" rather than feeling *worse* than usual, I don't currently feel this merits extending the release, and I still hope that next weekend will be the last rc. But it's just a bit unnerving how this release doesn't want to calm down, so no promises.

This development cycle has brought in 13,648 non-merge commits from a record-setting 2,247 developers, 436 of whom are first-time kernel contributors. The release history looks like:

RC	Date	Commits
v7.0-rc1	2026-02-22	12468	12468
v7.0-rc2	2026-03-01	434	434
v7.0-rc3	2026-03-08	537	537
v7.0-rc4	2026-03-15	544	544
v7.0-rc5	2026-03-22	391	391
v7.0-rc6	2026-03-29	517	517

See the (subscriber-only) KSDB 7.0 page for lots more information.

Stable updates: 6.12.79 was released on March 27 with a single fix for a LoongArch build regression.

The 6.19.11, 6.18.21, 6.12.80, and 6.6.131 updates are in the review process; they are due on April 2.