Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the latest release candidate of the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel, "it can mostly be described with the one word, 'boring'", he said, noting there weren't any exciting changes. He added that there was two weeks between this and the last release candidate, summarizing:

"As a result, -rc4 is a bit bigger than it would/should have been, but hopefully it's all good, and we've fixed most regressions. There's some arch updates (MIPS, power, sparc64, s390) and an ACPI update, but the rest of it is mainly lots of small fixes (mostly to various random drivers). With some scheduler and networking noise."

Actual source-level changes can be viewed through the gitweb interface [1]. Kernel Newbies maintains a list of all changes [2] in the upcoming kernel.

From:	Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Linux 2.6.23-rc4
Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:58:08 -0700 (PDT)


Ok, I lost it, and let two weeks pass between -rc releases. My bad.

As a result, -rc4 is a bit bigger than it would/should have been, but 
hopefully it's all good, and we've fixed most regressions. There's some 
arch updates (MIPS, power, sparc64, s390) and an ACPI update, but the 
rest of it is mainly lots of small fixes (mostly to various random 
drivers). With some scheduler and networking noise.

I think the shortlog is _just_ too big to be posted on the kernel mailing 
list, but since it can mostly be described with the one word "boring", 
it's not a huge loss. As usual, just do

	git shortlog v2.6.23-rc3..v2.6.23-rc4

if you have the git trees to get the all the details on extraneous 
semicolons, missed or duplicate include files, kzalloc conversions, new 
PCI ID's etc etc.

		Linus

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