Aptivi<p><strong>Linux 6.17 RC1 released!</strong></p><p>Linux 6.17 RC1 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from feature additions to performance improvements and bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate.</p><p>During the development of Linux 6.17, delays are to be expected due to Torvalds’ busy schedule. However, in the <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgb=B_pGPSTw9y4Fw82y5V_mvzJp_0XcWanz7YRR5vkXA@mail.gmail.com/T/#u" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">release announcement</a> for this version of the kernel, he said:</p><blockquote><pre>So two weeks have passed, and depending on how you see it, rc1 is either earlier than usual (it's only Sunday morning back home in the usual timezone) or later than usual (because it's getting to be Sunday evening here in Finland where I'm cutting the release). I decided to basically split the difference on my usual "early Sunday afternoon" schedule.<br><br>Anyway, due to travels, I wanted to do most of the heavy lifting the first week, and I can happily report that that part worked out well. I wouldn't want to do this most merge windows, but the bulk of the work was done before travel, and that meant that the straggler pulls were manageable while traveling. Thanks to everybody who got their pulls in early - you know who you are.<br><br>And the late stragglers then got a slightly more annoyed Linus as a result. Sorry about that.<br><br>Anyway, the merge window did end up looking fairly healthy, despite me having to go through a couple of bisections for trouble spots (one during travels with a laptop - not optimal, but thankfully it was at least one of the "reliable symptoms that bisect right to the culprit" kind). The stats look pretty normal both in patch size and in number of commits. That number being large enough that - as always - you only get the mergelog below as a kind of "view from 10,000ft" of the development process this time around.</pre></blockquote><p><strong>Why not try out this awesome pre-release of Linux 6.17?</strong></p><p><span></span></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/computer/" target="_blank">#Computer</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/computers/" target="_blank">#Computers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/kernel/" target="_blank">#Kernel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/laptop/" target="_blank">#Laptop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/laptops/" target="_blank">#Laptops</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/linux-kernel/" target="_blank">#LinuxKernel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/tech/" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/update/" target="_blank">#update</a></p>