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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 5.13 Release Candidate

It’s time to get busy again and test the next major Linux kernel branch, Linux 5.13, which had a fairly big merge window, according to Linus Torvalds.

However, it looks like things have proceeded fairly smoothly and the first Release Candidate is now ready for public testing. Once again, the biggest changes in Linux kernel 5.13 appear to be made around the AMD GPU open-source graphics driver for AMD Radeon GPUs, which received a “huge dump” of descriptor header files, but there’s a lot more to look for in the upcoming Linux kernel release compared to Linux kernel 5.12.

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