Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4

Date:
Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:37:28 +0000

Description:
Linus has released 7.0-rc4 for testing. Then Thursday hit with the networking pull. And then on Friday
everybody else decided to send in their work for the week, with a
few more trickling in over the weekend. End result: what had for a
short few days looked like a nice calm week turned into another
"bigger than usual" release candidate. To be fair, that "almost everything comes in at the end of the
week" is 100% normal, and none of this is surprising. I was
admittedly hoping that things would start to calm down, but that
was not to be. I no longer really believe that it was the one extra week we had
last release cycle: I'm starting to suspect it's the psychological
result of "hey, new major number", and people are just being a bit
more active as a result.

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