{"id":498725,"date":"2026-03-02T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:08:09","slug":"linux-7-0-rc2-released-so-im-not-super-happy-with-how-big-this-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498725\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.0-rc2 Released: “So I’m Not Super-Happy With How Big This Is”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.0<\/a> is now available for testing.<\/p>\n

Linux 7.0-rc2 is out with an initial batch of fixes following last Sunday’s Linux 7.0-rc1 that capped off the busy Linux 7.0 merge window. Among the fixes merged this week were numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI accelerator driver fixes<\/a> along with scattered kernel graphics driver fixes at large. Linus Torvalds also authored a change himself for dropping an old Kconfig option to address tiresome log spam messages<\/a>. Plus a variety of other bug\/regression fixes throughout the codebase. <\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

Linus Torvalds wrote in today’s 7.0-rc2 announcement<\/a>:
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“So I’m not super-happy with how big this is, but I’m hoping it’s just the random timing noise we see every once in a while where I just happen to get more pull requests one week, only for the next week to then be quieter. <\/p>\n

Because I don’t think we’ve had a bigger rc2 (counting non-merge commits) in quite a while. It might be because of pent-up work with 6.19 having dragged out that extra week. I guess we’ll see how the release progresses. <\/p>\n

rc2 is also a bit unusual in how the bulk of the changes aren’t in drivers. Sure, drivers are still a quarter of the diff, but it’s _only_ a quarter. Normally it’s at least half. Filesystems (mostly smb client, but we’ve got xfs and erofs there too) are another 25%. <\/p>\n

The rest (half the diff, for people keeping score at home) is a more mixed bunch, with tests (mostly bpf), core kernel, bpf, arch updates and networking code leading the charge.”<\/p>\n

See our Linux 7.0 feature overview<\/a> to learn more about the interesting features coming with this kernel release due out as stable by mid-April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.0 is now available for testing. Linux 7.0-rc2 is out with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-498725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}