It's Valentine's day, so here I am, making a valentine for everybody in the form of the usual rc release. Things look fairly normal - there's some pending and yet unexplained problem with some of the VM changes in this release cycle (the transparent huge-page cleanups in particular), but at least for now it seems to be s390-specific, so it shouldn't hold up testing for anybody else. And things look very normal otherwise. It's pretty much the same size as rc4's haev been lately, and nothing particular stands out. Just under two thirds of the patch is drivers (drm, sound, scsi target, networking, etc etc - it's pretty spread out), with the rest being the usual stuff: architecture updates (arc, mips, arm), and other miscellaneous (crypto, core networking and kernel code etc). As usual, shortlog is attached - it's easy to skim to kind of get a taste for what is going on. So in between romancing your significant other, go out and test. I'll be traveling next week, but will have my laptop and if things stay as calm and normal as they've been so far, there should be no issues. Linus
Linux 4.5 rc4
By
Linus Torvalds
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