Linux 7.2-rc7: AI-driven bug discovery makes for a busy release candidate
Questions this post answers
When is Linux 7.2 stable expected to release and which distros will ship it by default?
Linux 7.2 stable is expected around August 16, barring any critical issues discovered before then. It will ship as the default kernel in Ubuntu 26.10 and other distributions releasing around that time. Developers tracking distro upgrade timelines for Ubuntu 26.10 follow kernel release news like this on daily.dev.
What is Sashiko and what kinds of bugs has it found in the Linux kernel?
Sashiko is an AI/LLM-based bot that scans the Linux kernel codebase for defects. In the 7.2-rc7 cycle it found critical and high-severity bugs in the HWMON subsystem including race conditions, calculation errors, out-of-bounds accesses, and integer overflows, as well as an eight-year-old use-after-free race condition and a wave of networking issues. Engineers evaluating AI-assisted code review for systems-level codebases track real-world results like these on daily.dev.