Linux 5.6 Released!

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Linus Torvalds
Mar 29, 2020
So I'll admit to vacillating between doing this 5.6 release and doinganother -rc.This has a bit more changes than I'd like, but they are mostly fromdavem's networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with them. And Ilooked over the diff, and none of it looks scary. It's just slightlymore than I'd have preferred at this stage - not doesn't really seemworth delaying a release over.So about half the diff from the final week is network driver fixlets,and some minor core networking fixes. Another 20% is tooling - mostlybpf and netfilter selftests (but also some perf work).The rest is "misc" - mostly random drivers (gpio, rdma, input) and DTSfiles. With a smattering of fixes elsewhere (a couple of afs fixes,some vm fixes, etc).The shortlog is appended, nothing really looks all that exciting, andmost of the discussions I've seen are already about things for thenext merge window.Which obviously opens now as of the release, and I'll start doingpulls tomorrow. I already have a couple of pull requests in pending inmy inbox - thank you.And while I haven't really seen any real sign of kernel developmentbeing impacted by all the coronavirus activity - I suspect a lot of uswork from home even normally, and my daughter laughed at me and calledme a "social distancing champ" the other day - it may be worth justmentioning: I think we're all reading the news and slightlydistracted.  I'm currently going by the assumption that we'll have afairly normal 5.7 release, and there doesn't seem to be any signssaying otherwise, but hey, people may have better-than-usual reasonsfor missing the merge window. Let me know if you know of somesubsystem that ends up being affected.So we'll play it by ear and see what happens. It's not like the mergewindow is more important than your health, or the health of peoplearound you.                  Linus
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