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Linux 6.16-rc5 Released With A Performance Fix, Bcachefs Fixes & New Device Support


Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16.

Not that any of them are particularly large, but there's just several filesystems that all decided to send in their fixes last week: xfs, btrfs, smb and nfs clients, bcachefs and netfs). Linux 6.16 stable should be out by the end of July or early August if an extra release candidate is warranted. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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