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

Linux kernel 5.16-rc8 released

So as expected, this is a tiny rc - there really hasn't been a lot going on during the holidays. Even now, not everybody is necessarily back, and we'll likely have another very quiet upcoming week and then I'll do the real 5.16 release and we'll hopefully be more or less back to normal (and thanks to the people who have already sent me pending pull request for 5.17 - it helps me to have them early, since I'll unfortunately have some travel during the upcoming merge window).

The bulk here (and "bulk" is probably the wrong word to use, it's all pretty small) is gpu and networking drivers, and some core networking fixes. There's some other minor noise in here too (usb, i2c, input, auxdisplay, scsi, perf tooling), but it's all very small.

Please, as you emerge from your holiday-induced food coma, do give it a quick test so that we can all be happy about the final release next weekend.

Linus

Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.16-rc8.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.16-rc8/v5.15

You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v5.16-rc8/v5.16-rc7