Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the fifth release candidate for Linux kernel 5.17.

Linux kernel 5.17-rc5 released

We all know the drill by now. Another week, another rc.

Things continue to look pretty much normal. There are fixes all over the place, but no more than usual for this time of the release. And the statistics look normal too, with most of the changes being to drivers. The diffstat looks a bit unusual with the Intel iwlwifi driver showing a lot of modification, but it's almost entirely due to removal of the deprecated broadcast filtering that doesn't even work with newer firmware.

Outside the driver subsystems, it's mostly arch updates (kvm shows up a lot again), tooling and networking.

And various random changes elsewhere. The appended shortlog gives more details for the people who are interested in the minutiae.

Please do test.

Linus

Full source: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.17-rc5.tar.gz
Patch: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.17-rc5/v5.16

You can view the summary of the changes at the following URL:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/ds/v5.17-rc5/v5.17-rc4