Kernel release status

[Posted November 15, 2023 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 6.7-rc1, released on November 12. This is the largest merge window ever, but some of that was due to the bcachefs history that came with merge of that filesystem.

But 6.7 is pretty big in other ways too, with
12678 files changed, 838819 insertions(+), 280754 deletions(-)
which is also bigger than those historically big releases [4.9, 5.8 and 5.13]. And that's not due to bcachefs, that's actually mainly due to ia64 removal and a lot of GPU support (notably lots of AMD GPU header files again - lots and lots of lines, but there's support for new nvidia cards too).

Stable updates: none have been released in the last week.