{"id":546501,"date":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546501\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","slug":"linux-7-2-rc3-released-close-to-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546501\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The “New Normal”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LINUX
\nLinux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2<\/a> kernel version coming up in August.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.2-rc3 changes this week include adding Ultra RISC-V support to the RISC-V default kernel configuration<\/a>, SEGA Dreamcast driver fixes<\/a>, display detection improvements to help out some multi-GPU systems<\/a>, and marking Nick Desaulniers’ return to LLVM Linux development<\/a>. Plus the wide assortment of various bug\/regression fixes — including various AI-assisted patches. <\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

Linus Torvalds wrote in the 7.2-rc3 announcement<\/a>:
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“Things continue to look normal (the “new normal” with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we’re seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation). <\/p>\n

About half the changes are to drivers – spread all over. Yes, there’s GPU and networking as always, but there’s a fair amount of other misc driver noise too. <\/p>\n

The rest is similarly spread out: networking and filesystems are the biggest areas, but we have some documentation fixes (ok, some of it is just a pure re-indent), some core kernel, some architecture fixes, and various tooling fixes. <\/p>\n

Nothing looks particularly scary or strange.”<\/p>\n

See our Linux 7.2 feature overview<\/a> for a look at all the interesting changes coming to this next kernel version. Linux 7.2 is also what’s set to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 this autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546502,"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-546501","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\/546501","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=546501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}