Kernel release status
So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood)."
This release has seen 13,412 non-merge changesets from 2,138 developers, 404 of whom were first-time kernel contributors. The release history looks like:
RC Date Commits v7.2-rc1 2026-06-28 14395 14395
See the LWN KSDB v7.2 page for a lot more details.
Stable updates: 7.1.2, 7.0.14, and 6.18.37 were released on June 27. Note
that 7.0.14 is the end of the 7.0.x series.