Subj : Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4
To   : All
From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Mar 16 2026 06:40:08

Linus has released 7.0-rc4 for testing.

Then Thursday hit with the networking pull. And then on Friday
	everybody else decided to send in their work for the week, with a
	few more trickling in over the weekend. End result: what had for a
	short few days looked like a nice calm week turned into another
	"bigger than usual" release candidate.

To be fair, that "almost everything comes in at the end of the
	week" is 100% normal, and none of this is surprising. I was
	admittedly hoping that things would start to calm down, but that
	was not to be.

I no longer really believe that it was the one extra week we had
	last release cycle: I'm starting to suspect it's the psychological
	result of "hey, new major number", and people are just being a bit
	more active as a result.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062952/
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