Kernel release status
Anyway, as things look now this is the last rc. Something can obviously always come up and force us to change that, but please give rc7 a whirl and keep testing for one more week."
This release has seen 15,627 non-merge changesets from 2,436 developers, 515 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 v7.1-rc7 2026-06-07 332 332
See the LWN KSDB v7.1 page for a lot more details.
Stable updates: 7.0.12, 6.18.35, and 6.12.93 were released on June 9.