Kernel release status
So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary".
This release has seen 15,256 non-merge changesets from 2,452 developers, 526 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 v7.2-rc3 2026-07-12 475 475 v7.2-rc4 2026-07-19 557 557 v7.2-rc5 2026-07-26 611 611
See the LWN KSDB v7.2 page for a lot more details.
Stable updates: the massive 7.1.5,
6.18.40, 6.12.97, 6.6.145, 6.1.178, 5.15.212, and 5.10.261 updates were released on
July 24. The single-fix 6.12.98 release came out on July 25; 6.12.99, 6.6.146, and 6.1.179 (also with a single regression fix)
followed on July 29.