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Linux 6.17-rc3 Released: "A Bit Larger Than Usual"


Linux 6.17 is one step closer to release with Linus Torvalds having issued Linux 6.17-rc3 already today to currently traveling in Europe.

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. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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