Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

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He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2

Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI.

Torvalds posts a weekly state of the kernel update, and last week’s message opened with his observation that “This rc is huge.”

“Even by the ‘new normal’ standards this is a big rc, and I think it's the biggest rc6 we've had in years at least by commit count,” he wrote on August 2.

Fast forward a week and the size of the release candidate remains a concern.

“I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all,” Torvalds wrote in the message that announces the seventh release candidate for Linux 7.2. “But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review...

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