--- title: Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge" | daily.dev description: Linux 7.2-rc6 has been released, and Linus Torvalds describes it as unusually large — potentially the biggest rc6 by commit count in years. The release is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-2-rc6-released-this-rc-is-huge--crustqbhp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge" | daily.dev og:description: Linux 7.2-rc6 has been released, and Linus Torvalds describes it as unusually large — potentially the biggest rc6 by commit count in years. The release is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-7-2-rc6-released-this-rc-is-huge--crustqbhp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CrustQbHp.png og:image:alt: Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge" og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge" **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux 7.2-rc6 has been released, and Linus Torvalds describes it as unusually large — potentially the biggest rc6 by commit count in years. The release is dominated by driver fixes (~60%), networking (~20%), and other areas like arch, tooling, and filesystems. Notable fixes include excessive sound driver patches, DRM graphics driver fixes, a workaround for buggy Western Digital SATA drives, and a correction for AMD Zen 5 CPUs being misidentified as Zen 6. Torvalds attributes part of the backlog to conference timing and notes an uptick in patches linked to AI/LLM coding agents. He expressed hope that things calm down before the stable Linux 7.2 release, expected in roughly two weeks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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