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Linux 5.0 rc5

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Linus Torvalds
Feb 3, 2019
I'm happy to report that things seem to be calming down nicely, andrc5 is noticeably smaller than previous rc's. Let's hope the trendcontinues.About a third of the changes are to drivers (networking, rdma, scsi,block, misc), with the rest being spread out all over (tooling,networking, filesystems, arch updates, core  kernel..)Nothing looks particularly worrisome, so assuming the trend holds, welook to be on track for a fairly normal release cycle despite theearly hiccups due to the holidays.Go out there and test in between the commercial breaks,             Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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