{"id":569571,"date":"2026-07-26T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:52:09","slug":"linux-7-2-rc5-released-once-more-we-have-quite-a-massive-rc5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569571\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: “Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2<\/a> kernel in less than one month’s time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week’s latest bug\/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.2-rc5 brings a variety of bug fixes, many of which continue to turn up via AI\/LLM agents. Linux 7.2-rc5 brings the “new normal” of audio fixes<\/a> across the board, driven on by many AI-powered discoveries and lots of quirky hardware out there. Linux 7.2-rc5 also fixes an issue in the IEEE-1394 Firewire IPv4 networking<\/a> that has existed in the mainline Linux kernel since 2009. <\/p>\n

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Linus Torvalds wrote in today’s 7.2-rc5 announcement<\/a>:
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“It’s Sunday afternoon, and once more we have quite a massive -rc5. <\/p>\n

The same thing happened in 7.1, so part of it is just the “new normal”. But I think this time the bigger part of it is that the networking tree ended up having some pent up work from the previous week due to conference distractions. So over a third of the patch is networking, although the bulk of that is obviously on the driver side. <\/p>\n

There are all the usual other drivers in here too, although for a change there are more USB changes than GPU drivers. So that’s something. But there’s a little bit of everything on the driver side (sound, tty, block, firewire – you get the idea). <\/p>\n

And then there’s everything else: tooling (selftest and perf), fielsystems (smb, btrfs), rust and arch fixes, documentation… <\/p>\n

So it’s a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary.”<\/p>\n

There are many new features and changes with Linux 7.2<\/a> that will ideally debut as stable in three weeks on 16 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month’s time, out today is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569572,"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-569571","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\/569571","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=569571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}