das final release von Linux kernel 6.8 wird für den mittleren März 2024 erwartet,
Die nachhaltige und kontinuierliche Weiterentwicklung des Linux-Kernels sieht Linux 6.8 als den bevorstehenden großen Release-Meilenstein. Vor einigen Tagen hat Linus Torvalds die Verfügbarkeit des ersten Release Candidate (RC) für öffentliche Tests bekannt gegeben.
Das zweiwöchige Zusammenführungsfenster für den Linux-Kernel 6.8 öffnete sich automatisch mit der Veröffentlichung von Linux 6.7 und ist jetzt geschlossen, was bedeutet, dass die erste Release Candidate (RC)-Entwicklungsversion für Early Adopters, Distributionsbetreuer und „Bleeding-Edge“ verfügbar ist Benutzer.
Linux:
“So this wasn’t the most pleasant merge window, but most of the unpleasantness was entirely unrelated to the code base and almost entirely related to nasty weather,” said Linus Torvalds. “Just a few technical hiccups. And after a very big 6.7 release, 6.8 looks to actually be smaller than average, although not really all that significantly so.”
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So this wasn't the most pleasant merge window, but most of the
unpleasantness was entirely unrelated to the code base and almost
entirely related to nasty weather. Just a few technical hiccups. And
after a very big 6.7 release, 6.8 looks to actually be smaller than
average, although not really all that significantly so.
And while maybe a bit smaller than usual (I blame the holidays),
things generally look pretty normal. The bulk is driver updates (GPU
and networking drivers are the big areas as always, but there's a bit
of everything), but we've also got a fair chunk of filesystem updates
(mainly core vfs, bcachefs, xfs and btrfs) and obviously all the usual
arch updates.
The rest is all over: docs, tooling, core kernel, mm and networking.
My mergelog below gives some kind of high-level overview.
Let the testing and calming down begin,
