Linus Torvalds simply launched the Linux 6.14-rc5 kernel because the Linux 6.14 secure kernel approaches towards launch later in March.
Linux 6.14-rc5 is one other quite routine weekly take a look at launch. Linus Torvalds commented within the 6.14-rc5 announcement:
“One other regular week, nothing unusual stands out, and each the shortlog and diffstat look very common.
About half the patch is drivers (networking and drm dominate, however rdma and sound present up with random noise elsewhere). The remainder is pretty unfold out – structure, filesystem, core networking, and extra selftests.
Nothing seems to be notably large or worrisome.”
A couple of patches to notice this week embrace Christoph Hellwig stepping down as a DMA mapping helpers maintainer in addition to for the ConfigFS code following the latest Rust kernel drama. Individually, one other notable change for the week is a fix for old Intel Core 2 processors to keep away from some potential boot delays / stalls.
There are many great Linux 6.14 features/changes to sit up for with the secure launch later this month. Linux 6.14 in flip shall be what’s to energy the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releases.
