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Linux 3.18 rc5

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Linus Torvalds
Nov 17, 2014
Hmm. We had a very calm -rc4, and I wish I could say that thingscontinued to calm down, but...  Yeah, rc5 is clearly bigger than rc4was. Oh well.It's not like it's entirely out of line, though - rc4 was unusuallysmall. And the changes aren't particularly odd or scary: about 55%drivers (networking, gpu, cypto, thermal, sound), 15% arch updates(xtensa, x86, arm[64], parsic, sparc), and the rest is a mostly a mixof netwoorking, filesystem, VM, documentation and tracing updates.The changes tend to be fairly small and clear, and about a third aremarked for stable.So we still have a few pending issues, but things look fairly normal.We've still got a few weeks to go before final, and the more you cantest, the better off we'll be.         Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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