Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the second release candidate for Linux kernel 5.16.

Linux kernel 5.16-rc2 released

Nothing especially noteworthy stands out for the last week, it all felt pretty normal for a rc2 week.

The commit stats look normal, and the diffstat looks fairly regular too. There's perhaps relatively less driver diffs than usual, partly explained by the tools subdirectory diff being larger than usual (a quarter of the whole thing), mostly just due to added kvm tests. The rest is arch updates, filesystems, networking, documentation etc...

So fixes a bit all over the place, with nothing that really stands out. Details below in the shortlog.

Linus

Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.16-rc2.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.16-rc2/v5.15

You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v5.16-rc2/v5.16-rc1