Linus Torvalds released today the seventh weekly release candidate to Linux 6.15 with the stable kernel potentially debuting next Sunday.
Linux 6.15-rc7 has pulled in a number of fixes and new security mitigations this week. Among the new changes with Linux 6.15-rc7 are the new Intel mitigations for the Training Solo security vulnerability and similarly the ARM64 security mitigation for the Training Solo vulnerability. Linux 6.15-rc7 also includes AMD Zen 6 CPU core identification with a new synthetic feature flag as AMD engineers begin working on the kernel changes for supporting next-gen Ryzen and EPYC processors due out next year. This week also brought more Bcachefs file-system fixes, various DRM graphics driver fixes, and an assortment of other bug and regression fixes.
If all goes well Linux 6.15 stable will debut next weekend otherwise a 6.15-rc8 followed by the stable kernel then one week later. In any event Linux 6.15 brings many exciting new features and changes.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote in the 6.15-rc7 announcenent:
“So last week was reasonably uneventful, although I do wish we had a bit less churn. In particular, we had another run of CPU bug mitigations, which always adds some fun to the workday. Not. But the fallout seems to have been fairly well contained this time.
Aside from that, some drm Xe fixes stand out, and there’s a slightly bigger patch for sched-ext. The rest looks quite small and harmless.
So while I wish we hadn’t had some of the excitement of last week, on the whole it all still looks pretty solid, and unless something strange happens I’ll do the final 6.15 release next weekend.”
