Linux kernel 7.3 has been released

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/tech@piefed.world [/c/tech@piefed.world]/p/2040710/linux-kernel-7-3-has-been-released [https://feddit.online/c/tech@piefed.world/p/2040710/linux-kernel-7-3-has-been-released] > Linus Torvalds Announcement [https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/10/18/1221]: > > > It’s Sunday afternoon, and this week I somehow kept my wits together > > long enough to keep track of the day of the week, so the release isn’t > > randomly delayed. Will wonders never cease? > > > > Anyway, nothing very special seems to have happened this last week, so > > as expected the final 7.3 is out, and thus tomorrow the merge window > > for 7.4 opens. Except I’m on my annual family vacation, so instead of > > merging anything first thing in the morning, I’ll spend most of the > > day on a boat and under water. I’ll get back to merging in the > > afternoon, but I expect my schedule to be a bit unusual for a while. > > > > I hope I can still complete the merge window in the usual two weeks, > > but it may be that I’ll end up with an extra week of merging just to > > catch up. > > > > Note that that extra week doesn’t mean that I’ll accept pull requests > > that come in past the usual timing - the rules are still that what > > gets merged should be ready before the merge window opens, not some > > kind of late development during the merge window. So don’t try any > > shenanigans. > > > > Below is the shortlog for the last week of 7.3 development. It looks > > fairly spread out, no real pattern to it: random fixes all over.