Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 6 October 2024 at 06:52 PM EDT. 31 Comments
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Building off last Sunday's inaugural release candidate of Linux 6.12, Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel a few minutes ago.

Linux 6.12-rc2 brings fixes for early fallout and regressions stemming from the recently merged feature code.

Linux 6.12-rc2 Git tag


Among the patches this week were expanding Arm's Speculative SSBS workaround to more CPUs including the Cortex-A715, Neoverse-N3, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 cores.

Over on the Intel side, Linux 6.12-rc2 brings more early enablement work around the Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids next-generation server processors.

Linux 6.12-rc2 also contains more Bcachefs fixes following that mailing list drama over the weekend.

Plus an assortment of other bug fixes throughout the massive kernel codebase.

See our Linux 6.12 feature overview for a look at all of the major changes coming to this new kernel version. Linux 6.12 stable should be out around mid-November and will likely serve as this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version.
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