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Linux 4.7 rc7

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Linus Torvalds
Jul 11, 2016
We've had a nicely calm week, which is what I expected - the last rcreally was bigger just due to random timing issues, and not someworrying pattern about this release cycle. Whew.Anyway, there's a couple of regressions still being looked at, butunless anything odd happens, this is going to be the last rc. However,due to my travel schedule, I won't be doing the final 4.7 nextweekend, and people will have two weeks to report (and fix) anyremaining bugs.Yeah, that's the ticket. My travel schedule isn't screwing anythingup, instead think of it as you guys getting a BONUS WEEK! Yay!Ok, my travel schedule probably _is_ screwing somebody's plans up, forwhich I apologize in advance. And hey, even that planned delay couldobviously change, if somebody finds some real killer bug. But itdoesn't look all that likely, considering that this hasn't been aparticularly big or scary release cycle.But do go out and test. The appended shortlog gives the details on thepreceding calm week, but the overview is very normal: two thirdsdrivers (networking, sound, gpio, misc), with the rest being prettyevenly split between arch fixes and "misc" (in this case mostly corekernel, networking, and ecryptfs). But all of it is pretty small.                 Linus
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