Here at Ubunlog we usually post a short article about each Linux kernel release. Almost every week, after a couple of debating and picking up what to add, there is a new Release Candidate every seven days. On many occasions we have something relatively important to tell, some change or a stone in the way, but it has not been like that with the Linux 5.5-rc2 release.
In fact, the mail that Linus Torvalds has shipped this week, or the text of it, is so short that we can add everything in the quote that you will have after the cut. Basically everything has gone too calm and the only changes they have included are the typical driver updates, as well as changes in io_uring, file systems (ceph and overlays), network core and architecture updates, among others.
Linux 5.5-rc2, quiet week
All of you already know the subject: another week, another rc. Things seem normal - rc2 is usually pretty quiet, and it was this week too. All the stats look normal too - most of this is drivers (gpu, rdma, networking, scsi, usb stand out, but there's noise elsewhere as well), and the rest are random stuff all over the place: io_uring, sys files (ceph, overlayfs), core networks, file updates, header files, etc., etc. So watch it: build it, install it and launch it, and report any issues you see.
That this is a quiet week is quite normal, something Torvalds notes in the mail. The problems or the hustle usually arrives after the third week, coinciding with the third Release Candidate. So, once again, we can say that the news is that there is no news, other than good news that the development of the Linux kernel does not present problems.
Linux 5.5 is coming sometime in February, probably the version I use Focal Fossa and in this link You can see the most outstanding news that it is expected to include.