{
  "id": 12085331,
  "title": "Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/kernel-prepatch-7-3-rc6",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-05T05:47:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1098476/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 7.3-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: Next week might look a bit different: we've got the annual maintainer summit and the Linux plumbers conference going on , so I'll be on the road, as will a number of other maintainers. That may or may not end up changing the stats for -rc7. But it's unlikely to affect the release schedule, although the fact that I have my yearly family…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}