Kernel release status
It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so far so good."
This release has seen 13,798 non-merge changesets from 2,176 developers, 418 of whom were first-time kernel contributors. The release history looks like:
RC Date Commits v7.2-rc1 2026-06-28 14395 14395 v7.2-rc2 2026-07-05 433 433
See the LWN KSDB v7.2 page for a lot more details.
Stable updates: 7.1.3, 6.18.38, 6.12.95, 6.6.144, 6.1.177, 5.15.211, and 5.10.260 were released on July 4.