Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong
Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds has declared he might as well attribute the size of the latest Linux 7.3 release candidate to artificial intelligence. In his regular Sunday kernel update post, Torvalds lamented that the recent rc2 release felt unusually large. While he couldn't pinpoint a single cause for the extensive release, he noted that multiple filesystems, the drm pull, networking enhancements, BPF fixes, and various driver trees all contributed to the bulky version.
Torvalds pointed to a late EDAC pull that was missed during the merge window, but deemed it unremarkable. He suggested the release might simply be a result of randomness, though he humorously blamed AI for the situation. Last week, Torvalds turned the blame inward, admitting his own oversights led to complications. He confessed he had made a system upgrade in the middle, causing issues that complicated the merge window. Despite his admission of error, Torvalds claimed the outcome was ultimately positive.
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