The Linux 5.12-rc5 released today is “more than average” for the kernel development at this stage. If this state is maintained, it is likely to result in an extra week of testing/-rc8 version before the final version of Linux 5.12, But it is too early to draw conclusions at this stage.
Last week’s Linux 5.12-rc4 improved very little, and many transactions have been accumulated on top of the just-released Linux 5.12-rc5. Regarding this week’s fix, Linus Torvalds pointed out that most of the changes are drivers (the GPU and the network are the most, but there are various other small driver updates elsewhere), and the core network (including bpf) repair is also an important link.
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In addition, there are some minor improvements: for example, Arch repair, some file system problem repairs (btrfs, cifs, squashfs), SELinux, perf tools and documentation, io_uring signal processing repairs, and so on.
In this week’s fix, it is worth noting that the kernel continues to work on AMD GPU S0ix processing, AMDGPU has added a Sienna Cichlid PCI ID, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen2 supports Intel HID driver, Btrfs repair, and continues to support Clang compilation. For the repair of the device, there are many ordinary small repairs.
It is expected that the Linux 5.12 kernel should reach a stable version by the end of April, depending on how the rest of the merger cycle performs.
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