Kernel release status
Well, I wouldn't call this 'small', but it is certainly smaller than rc5 was. And I don't think there's anything particularly scary here, so maybe we're still on track for a normal release cycle. Let's see."
This release has seen 15,352 non-merge changesets from 2,388 developers, 495 of whom were first-time kernel contributors. The release history looks like:
RC Date Commits v7.1-rc1 2026-04-26 13963 13963 v7.1-rc2 2026-05-03 475 475 v7.1-rc3 2026-05-10 584 584 v7.1-rc4 2026-05-17 428 428 v7.1-rc5 2026-05-24 748 748 v7.1-rc6 2026-05-31 473 473
See the LWN KSDB v7.1 page for a lot more details.
Stable updates: 7.0.11, 6.18.34, 6.12.92, 6.6.142, 6.1.175, 5.15.209, and 5.10.258 were released on June 1.