Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week

After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October. Linux 7.3-rc2 is another busy post-merge-window weekly candidate with a lot of AI/LLM-generated material continuing to flow in paired with addressing early fallout from the initial Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel testing. Linux 7.3-rc2 brought in Cache Aware Scheduling misfit fixes for hybrid CPUs to provide better performance, a tree-wide cleanup to move more kmalloc() calls to using kmalloc_obj() calls, NVIDIA Blackwell display fixes for the Nouveau driver, disabling RandStruct security by default if Rust support is present along with a Rust compiler toolchain, and EDAC changes that mistakenly missed out on the Linux 7.3 merge window. Plus a whole lot of other fixes throughout the vast kernel land of close to 41 million lines in the source tree. Second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman already warned the Linux 7.3 cycle is looking rough due to all the AI/LLM activity. Linux 7.3-rc2 is available at kernel.org. See the Linux 7.3 feature overview for a look at all the interesting changes coming to this next Linux kernel version.