"Linus Torvalds warns that the next Linux kernel, version 6.19, will likely be delayed by about a week. The founder of the Linux project writes that the upcoming development cycle will be affected by the annual Kernel Maintainers Summit and the holiday season, leaving less time for integration and testing. The announcement coincided with the release of Linux 6.18-rc4, which Torvalds published slightly earlier than usual because he had to leave for conference trips."
"Although Torvalds described the past week as calm, the scope of the code changes is comparable to previous release candidates. Most of the work focused on improvements to drivers, with an emphasis on GPUs, network components, and sound cards. In addition, changes were also made to the core of the network, to file systems such as smb, xfs, and nfsd, and to the kernel scheduler (sched_ext)."
The next Linux kernel release, 6.19, will likely be delayed by about a week because the annual Kernel Maintainers Summit and the holiday season reduce available integration and testing time. Development of Linux 6.18 is proceeding smoothly without major problems, and a final release is expected at the end of November. Recent changes emphasize driver improvements (GPUs, networking, sound), core network updates, filesystem work (smb, xfs, nfsd), scheduler adjustments, architecture fixes, and new self-tests including vfio. Distribution uptake will vary by release model, with rolling and cutting-edge distros adopting sooner than conservative stable releases.
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