Linux 5.1 Released | Linux Today

Linux 5.1 Released

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Linus Torvalds
May 5, 2019
So it's a bit later in the day than I usually do this, just because Iwas waffling about the release. Partly because I got some small pullrequests today, but mostly just because I wasn't looking forward tothe timing of this upcoming 5.2 merge window.But the last-minute pull requests really weren't big enough to justifydelaying things over, and hopefully the merge window timing won't beall that painful either. I just happen to have the college graduationof my oldest happen right smack dab in the middle of the upcomingmerge window, so I might be effectively offline for a few days there.If worst comes to worst, I'll extend it to make it all work, but Idon't think it will be needed.Anyway, on to 5.1 itself. The past week has been pretty calm, and thefinal patch from rc6 is not all that big. The shortlog is appended,but it's small changes all over. Networking, filesystem code, drivers,tooling, arch updates. Nothing particularly odd stands out.Of course, the shortlog below is just for that final calm week. On thewhole, 5.1 looks very normal with just over 13k commits (plus another1k+ if you count merges). Which is pretty much our normal size thesedays. No way to boil that down to a sane shortlog, with work all over.Go out and test,                Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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