Linux 6.6-rc7 Released: Linux 6.6 Final Likely Next Sunday
Barring anything major coming up in the week ahead, Linux 6.6 stable will be out next Sunday on 29 October. If anything major does come up, Linux 6.6-rc8 would instead be issued and punt the stable release out to the first weekend in November.
Linus Torvalds wrote in the 6.6-rc7 announcement:
"Things continue to look fairly normal, and there's nothing particularly alarming here.
The _one_ thing I react to is that this rc7 is a bit larger than I'd like it to be. It is certainly on the bigger side of our rc7 releases in the 6,.x series. The only 6.x with a bigger rc7 (in number of commits) was 6.1 - and that one ended up having an rc8 too...
Anyway, while this is all bigger than I'd have liked it to be, if the upcoming week is quiet and normal, this is the last rc and next Sunday will see the final release and then we'll open the merge window for 6.7. I simply am not aware of any issues that would be showstoppers.
We'll see. Please do go give this a good testing, and holler if there are any concerns. Another release candidate is always an option if some last-minute thing comes up,"
See the Linux 6.6 feature overview for a look at all of the exciting new features and other improvements to find with this kernel. Linux 6.6 is also likely to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version.
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