{"id":592466,"date":"2026-09-07T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592466\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:42:11","slug":"linux-7-3-rc2-released-following-another-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592466\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LINUX
\nAfter the Linux 7.3<\/a> merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.3-rc2 is another busy post-merge-window weekly candidate with a lot of AI\/LLM-generated material continuing to flow in paired with addressing early fallout from the initial Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel testing. Linux 7.3-rc2 brought in Cache Aware Scheduling misfit fixes for hybrid CPUs<\/a> to provide better performance, a tree-wide cleanup to move more kmalloc() calls to using kmalloc_obj() calls<\/a>, NVIDIA Blackwell display fixes for the Nouveau driver<\/a>, disabling RandStruct security by default if Rust support is present<\/a> along with a Rust compiler toolchain, and EDAC changes that mistakenly missed out on the Linux 7.3 merge window<\/a>. \n<\/p>\n

Plus a whole lot of other fixes throughout the vast kernel land of close to 41 million lines in the source tree<\/a>. Second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman already warned the Linux 7.3 cycle is looking rough<\/a> due to all the AI\/LLM activity.
\n<\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

Linux 7.3-rc2 is available at kernel.org<\/a>. See the Linux 7.3 feature overview<\/a> for a look at all the interesting changes coming to this next Linux kernel version.<\/p>\n

Update: Linus Torvalds is now out with his delayed 7.3-rc2 announcement<\/a> where he commented:<\/p>\n

“This didn’t *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was.
\nrc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the
\nmerge window and it takes a while to start finding bugs. But not this
\ntime – this is a “full fat” rc release.<\/p>\n

And it’s not some single cause. I’d like to point to the late EDAC
\npull that was forgotten and didn’t happen during the merge window, but
\nhonestly, that’s a fairl small thing. No, rc2 had several filesystems
\nsending in their fixes, and there’s a fairly sizable drm pull with
\nlots of scattered fixes. Along with networking and bpf sending in
\nfixes. *And* a number of driver trees too.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10857,10856,10854,10853,10860,10858,10855,111,139,69,10859,10852,10863,145,10861,10862],"class_list":["post-592466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}