{"id":352900,"date":"2026-03-22T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/352900\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:21:14","slug":"linux-7-0-rc5-released-linux-7-0-starting-to-calm-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/352900\/","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>:
\n
“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":352901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78437,85,46,78436,78434,78433,78440,78438,78435,78439,78432,78443,125,78441,78442],"class_list":{"0":"post-352900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-linux-benchmarking","12":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","13":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","14":"tag-linux-how-to","15":"tag-linux-performance","16":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","17":"tag-open-source-graphics","18":"tag-phoronix","19":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","22":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}