Linus Torvalds has introduced the supply of the sixth launch candidate for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Not like final week, when Torvalds was proud of the earlier launch, this time, he has famous a rise within the variety of commits, which is one thing he didn’t wish to see this late within the launch cycle. Nonetheless, he says it’s not an enormous problem proper now and that he received’t fear about it.

Importantly, Torvalds mentioned that he’s hoping for Linux 6.15 to be launched in two weeks, every week after a closing seventh launch candidate. He wrote: “We have one other two weeks to go within the regular launch schedule, and it nonetheless appears like the whole lot is on monitor.”

This week, driver-related commits made up the majority of adjustments, with GPU and networking drivers being probably the most energetic. There was a concentrate on fixes for AMD GPUs and enhancements to community adapters. There are additionally touchpad enhancements for laptops from Dynabook, TUXEDO, and Dell, in addition to higher assist for sport controllers together with the 8BitDo Final 2 Wi-fi Controller. The Share button on the Xbox One controllers ought to now work correctly too.

This launch additionally brings file system enhancements, particularly, there are enhancements to Btrfs, OCFS2, and EROFS that enhance stability, repair bugs, and introduce extra environment friendly dealing with of compressed information. There are additionally networking enhancements that enable for higher dealing with of IPv6 in advanced setups.

Lastly, there are enhancements to KVM, a key piece of know-how utilized in digital machines. When you’re on this kernel, you may see some enhancements with the efficiency of VMs, particularly on ARM-based machines.

When you’re fascinated by any of those updates, you may head over to the announcement and press Ctrl + F to go looking by way of the commit log for extra in-depth, technical particulars.