Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday
Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday
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Publish Date: 2026-06-07 20:26:00
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Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday.
Linux 7.1 development continues coming in heavier than historical trends due to an uptick in patches as a result of AI/LLM coding agents. But at least it’s calming down a bit and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing v7.1 next weekend barring any unforeseen issues.
Among the changes on my radar this week that made it into Linux 7.1-rc7 were disabling an AMD-developed DRM ioctl for ROCm CRIU due to ongoing security challenges. ALso on the AMD side, more AMD Zen 6 CPU models are added to the Zen 6 CPU detection.
Linus Torvalds wrote in today’s 7.1-rc7 announcement:
“So I wouldn’t call rc7 small, but the rc’s have definitely been shrinking. The biggest single area here is the GPU fixes, and networking isn’t far behind, but on the whole things are calming down. Knock wood.
The rest is pretty random and spread out – some architecture fixes (mostly kvm-related), various random driver fixes, some filesystem work, and a few build fixes for strange configs.
I don’t get the feeling that there’s anything really scary going on that would cause delays to the release cycle. I do have some unfortunate travel timing coming up, but not anything where I’d feel like moving releases around would be useful.
Anyway, as things look now this is the last rc. Something can obviously always come up and force us to change that, but please give rc7 a whirl and keep testing for one more week.”
So hopefully we will see Linux 7.1 final next week on 14 June. See our Linux 7.1 feature overview for a look at all of the notable changes coming in this next kernel release.
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