{"id":90313,"date":"2025-08-24T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90313\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:36:34","slug":"linux-6-17-rc3-released-a-bit-larger-than-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90313\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 6.17-rc3 Released: “A Bit Larger Than Usual”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LINUX
\nLinux 6.17<\/a> is one step closer to release with Linus Torvalds having issued Linux 6.17-rc3 already today to currently traveling in Europe.<\/p>\n

Linux 6.17-rc3 is out a few hours early today. This week brought HP Victus 16-r1000 gaming laptop fan and thermal profile support<\/a> alongside various other fixes. For the most part it was routine bug\/regression fixes for the week with not too much else standing out. <\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

Linus Torvalds commented in the 6.17-rc3 announcement<\/a>:
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“I’m still traveling for family reasons, so slightly unusual timing for rc3, but it’s (barely) afternoon here on the East coast, so the usual Sunday afternoon schedule technically still holds. <\/p>\n

As suspected, rc3 ends up being a bit larger than usual, to balance out the tiny rc2. Yes, 3.17 seems to be generally in pretty good shape, but nobody *really* believed that it was as good as that tiny rc2 would make it seem. <\/p>\n

And while rc3 is on the larger side, it’s by no means anything outrageously so, it’s well within the normal parameters. <\/p>\n

The diffstat looks fairly normal too: about half drivers (spread all over, we’ve got a bit of everything, but mellanox mlx5 stands out if you want to pick out any particular area). There’s a fair chunk of added selftests and some more Rust support, and then a random collection of fixes all over: architecture code, filesystems, VM and core networking. <\/p>\n

Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,”<\/p>\n

Linux 6.17 stable will be out around the end of September. See our Linux 6.17 feature overview<\/a> for a look at all the interesting changes coming to this next kernel release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linux 6.17 is one step closer to release with Linus Torvalds having issued Linux 6.17-rc3 already today to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5870,59,5869,5867,5866,5873,5871,5868,5872,5865,5876,86,5874,5875,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-90313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-linux-benchmarking","11":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","12":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","13":"tag-linux-how-to","14":"tag-linux-performance","15":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","16":"tag-open-source-graphics","17":"tag-phoronix","18":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","21":"tag-ubuntu-hardware","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}