Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 September 2026 at 05:25 PM EDT. Add A Comment Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects.
- ▪Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 September 2026 at 05:25 PM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4.
- ▪As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects.
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Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 20 September 2026 at 05:25 PM EDT. Add A Comment Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn't too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4. Merged this week for Linux 7.3-rc4 were some important x86/x86_64 fixes, adding support for several new game controllers to the XPad driver, addressing two notable bugs with Btrfs, and addressing a silent user-space data loss bug that's existed since 2023.
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