List: linux-kernel
Subject: Linux 6.19-rc4
From: Linus Torvalds <>
Date: 2026-01-04 22:55:23
So this rc is still a bit smaller than usual, but it's not _much_
smaller, and I think next week is likely going to be more or less back
to normal.
Which is all exactly as expected, and nothing here looks particularly
odd. I'll make an rc8 this release just because of the time lost to
the holidays, not because it looks like we'd have any particular
issues pending (knock wood).
The shortlog for the past week is appended, but it's mostly random
driver fixes (network, gpu, rdma ...) and some tooling (selftests,
perf include header synchronization, and a clang-tools revert). It's
all pretty small.
The rest is random noise: core networking, some loongarch updates, and
various one- and few-liners in various areas: filesystems (nfsd and
smb), some io_uring and mm noise, bfq stat fix...
You know the drill - please keep testing and reporting any issues you find,
Linus