• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc7

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Mon Nov 24 06:40:07 2025
    Linus has released 6.18-rc7, probably the
    last -rc before the 6.18 release.

    So the rc6 kernel wasn't great: we had a last-minute core VM
    regression that caused people problems.

    That's not a great thing late in the release cycle like that, but
    it was a fairly trivial fix, and the cause wasn't some horrid bug,
    just a latent gotcha that happened to then bite a late VM fix. So
    while not great, it also doesn't make me worry about the state of
    6.18. We're still on track for a final release next weekend unless
    some big new problem rears its ugly head.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1047578/
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