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sphtoday at 5:47 PM4 repliesview on HN

It's a well-formatted changelog of the most salient features of the release. Linus doesn't provide one apart from a list of added commits and merged branches, which isn't very useful unless you are a kernel developer.


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NewJazztoday at 5:53 PM

This isn't quite right.

This is a well-formatted changelog of the changes that Igalia has contributed to the release, AFAICT.

KernelNewbies publishes a much more general summary of changes (it is much longer than this one).

https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxVersions

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realitykingtoday at 6:13 PM

It only covers changes made by Igalia devs. For a more general changelog I’d recommend the LWN articles:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078068/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1078539/

yipinwongtoday at 6:57 PM

ty for the context. I was not aware of the Linux dev ecosystem.