Linus Torvalds Calls for Calm as Bcachefs Misses Linux 6.5
upstart writes:
Expect the saga of this release to stretch out a bit over northern summer:
Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has delivered the first release candidate for version 6.5 of the kernel, but warned this release may not go entirely smoothly.
Torvalds's headline assessment of rc1 is "none of it looks hugely unusual."
"The biggest single mention probably goes to what wasn't merged, with the bcachefs pull request resulting in a long thread (we didn't hit a hundred emails yet, but it's not far away)."
As The Register reported in 2022, bcachefs is a filesystem that's been in development for nigh on a decade without being added to the kernel.
[...] In his announcement post for rc1, Torvalds wrote "Let's calm this party down."
[...] The release candidate is yours for the downloading here.
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