Last week’s Linux 5.12-rc4 was small, so a lot of work piled up into 5.12-rc5, which landed today. On this week’s fixes, Linus Torvalds noted that most of the change is driver work — GPU and networking leading the pack, plus assorted smaller driver updates elsewhere — and that core networking (including BPF) fixes are another significant chunk. Beyond that: some Arch fixes, various filesystem fixes (btrfs, cifs, squashfs), plus selinux, perf tooling and documentation, and io_uring signal handling fixes, among other small improvements.
Worth noting in this week’s set: the kernel continues its S0ix handling work for AMDGPU with another Sienna Cichlid PCI ID added, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen2 support in the Intel HID driver, btrfs fixes, more work toward Clang compiler support, and plenty of mundane small fixes.
The Linux 5.12 kernel is expected to reach a stable release in late April, depending on how the rest of this merge window plays out.
Read more: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg89U6PLp1AGhaqUx4KAZtkvKS6kuNmb+zObQhf1jez+g@mail.gmail.com/T/#u