{"id":512663,"date":"2026-03-09T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/512663\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:44:10","slug":"linux-7-0-rc3-released-some-of-the-biggest-in-recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/512663\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.0-rc3 Released: “Some Of The Biggest In Recent History”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LINUX
\nLinux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0<\/a> release in mid-April.<\/p>\n

It’s been another week of bug and regression fixing for Linux 7.0. Besides the usual code churn around mostly mundane bugs\/regressions, a few items that stand out include a slab performance fix for a “severe” regression<\/a>, new Dell \/ ASUS \/ OneXPlayer \/ Lenovo hardware support<\/a> via the different x86 platform drivers, a scoped user access usage that shows a ~1.5% increase in network performance on AMD Zen 2 CPUs<\/a>, fixing battery reporting for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2<\/a>, landing IBPB-On-Entry for AMD SEV-SNP guest VMs<\/a>, and fixing Sub-NUMA Clustering “SNC” topology for newer Intel CPUs<\/a>. The IBPB-On-Entry for SEV-SNP VMs is a security feature found with the latest AMD EPYC Zen 5 server processors. <\/p>\n

Those changes this week are on top of all the great new features and changes of Linux 7.0<\/a>. Linux 7.0 is the kernel that will be the default for the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44. <\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

Last week Linus Torvalds was not happy with how big Linux 7.0-rc2 ended up<\/a>. Linus Torvalds commented in this afternoon’s 7.0-rc3 announcement<\/a>:
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“So -rc2 was big – some of the biggest in recent history – but I suspected it was mainly due to random timing and just happenstance. <\/p>\n

Not so. <\/p>\n

Because rc3 is big too. Repeat after me: “some of the biggest in recent history”. It’s bigger than rc2, which is admittedly not unusual in itself, because rc2 tends to be pretty small as people take a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to find issues. <\/p>\n

But when rc2 was already fairly big, having rc3 then be even bigger makes me think something is up. <\/p>\n

Now, the likely “something” is probably just that 6.19 dragged out an extra week with that rc8 release, so I’m not exactly worried. But I most definitely hope things start calming down. <\/p>\n

Now, admittedly one reason I don’t worry too much is that a rather big portion of rc3 is selftests (almost a fifth of the patch), and nothing in the rest really looks particularly scary. Many of the commits in here are trivial – small cleanups or adding hardware IDs or quirks etc. <\/p>\n

There’s just more commits than is the norm at this point. <\/p>\n

So it’s still pretty early in the release cycle, and it just feels a bit busier than I’d like. But nothing particularly stands out or looks bad. <\/p>\n

Please keep testing, and let’s hope we’re approaching the calming down period and just haven’t quite gotten there yet.”<\/p>\n

Hopefully Linux 7.0 ends up calming down soon especially with the tight Ubuntu 26.04 LTS timeline and Ubuntu will ship Linux 7.0 even if the stable release is not out<\/a> in time for its kernel freeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linux 7.0-rc3 is out as the latest weekly test candidate in leading up to the stable Linux 7.0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512664,"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-512663","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\/512663","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=512663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}