Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 6.15-rc5. He said he’s happy with the release. Here’s a look at some of the changes this week.
Linus Torvalds released the fifth release candidate of Linux 6.15 on Sunday, explaining that it was on track with typical metrics, suggesting a stable development process. Driver improvements made up most of the changes (aside from self-tests) in this update, specifically networking drivers. Torvalds said that for once, GPU drivers didn’t constitute many of the changes.
Other improvements in this release include bcachefs and smb client fixes. Many of the improvements to bcachefs were contributed by Kent Overstreet. He made the most contributions in this release with 21 patches to his name.
The biggest set of changes in this update came in the form of self-tests, they made up for about 20% of the changes.
