Kernel 6.13 RC7 Is Out. Kernel 6.13 Should Be Released Next Sunday

Kernel 6.13-rc7 has been officially released by Linus Torvalds himself last night.

The official announcement:

This rc7 is slightly bigger than normal, but considering the timing, it’s pretty much where I would have expected, and nothing really stands out. The diffstat looks fine, and the appended shortlog doesn’t look strange either.

So unless something odd happens the upcoming week, I expect to release a final 6.13 next week as per the normal schedule.

If nothing changes, Kernel 6.13 stable should be released next Sunday, on the 19th of January.

Kernel 6.13 brings notable changes and improvements, including the introduction of the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver, Intel Panther Lake display support, support for many older Apple (pre-M1) devices, NVMe 2.1 support, lazy preemption support, some fixes for AMD Zen 1 / Zen 2 CPU microcode that previously led to slow boot times, New AMD Zen 5 perf events, Intel Granite Rapids D idle driver support and many others.

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