{"id":359966,"date":"2026-03-22T22:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:17:14","slug":"linux-7-0-rc5-released-linux-7-0-starting-to-calm-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359966\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 “Starting To Calm Down”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LINUX
\nLinus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0<\/a> kernel release in April.<\/p>\n

With Linux 7.0-rc5 there are various bug and regression fixes that accumulated over the past week as we move toward the end of the cycle. Some of the Linux 7.0-rc5 changes that stand out include a workaround in Radeon and AMDGPU drivers for the old GCN 1.0 era Hainan GPUs<\/a> and better support for the Logitech MX Master 4 Bluetooth mouse<\/a> as items that stood out to me in monitoring the patch flow for the past week. <\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

Linus Torvalds wrote in today’s 7.0-rc5 announcement<\/a>:
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“It looks like things are starting to calm down – rc5 is smaller than the previous rc’s this merge window, although it still tracks a bit larger than rc5s historically do. I’ll still take it as a good sign overall. <\/p>\n

The diffstat looks fairly normal – half drivers (gpu and networking, but unusually some serial updates too). But on the whole it’s all pretty small – most of the commits are small few-liners. <\/p>\n

Outside of drivers, it’s the usual mixed bag – core networking, some filesystem updates, bpf, selftests and some architecture fixes. <\/p>\n

So while the rc’s have trended bigger than usual this release, on the whole it all continues to look fairly innocuous. Please keep testing,”<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, see our Linux 7.0 feature overview<\/a> for a look at all of the interesting changes coming to this next stable kernel release in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7165,61,60,7164,7162,7161,7168,7166,7163,7167,7160,7171,80,7169,7170],"class_list":["post-359966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}