Linux 6.13-rc1 released
Linux 6.13-rc1 is out and with that this cycle's merge window is now closed. Feel free to give it a spin on your shiny new machines and try taking some time off during Christmas and New Year!
So two weeks have passed, the merge window is over, and -rc1 is pushed out.
And for once - possibly the first time ever(*) - it looks like the
release cycle doesn't clash horribly up with the holiday season, and
we'll have time both to stabilize this release, _and_ the work for
6.14 won't be starting until well into January. Sure, I'd not be at
all surprised if 6.14 ends up being smaller than average just because
people hopefully take a rest over the holidays, but that sounds like a
good thing. I don't think we need to stretch the release timing out,
but we most certainly can just relax a bit and make the next release
smaller.
Anyway, below is my "short mergelog" as usual, since the full log is
way too big. I feel like we had more core VFS changes than usual, but
that obviously doesn't really show up in the diff stats, since those
are - as always - dominated by drivers.
Linus
(*) Almost certainly not the first time, but it feels like we always
tend to hit Christmas head on with some timing issue.