Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 7.4-rc2, noting an increasing volume of AI-assisted fixes integrated into kernel development.
Torvalds stated that such contributions are becoming commonplace and indicated he may stop highlighting them separately in future release notes.
According to Torvalds, this situation is becoming so common that in the future he may stop highlighting it separately in his announcements. He did not specify which AI tools were used, nor which specific pieces of code came from them, but he clarified that all code still goes through the usual review process.
The situation in Linux subsystems
BPF subsystem maintainer Alexei Starovoitov said that fixes in this section are now outpacing the rate at which new issues are being reported. Torvalds clarified, however, that the rest of the kernel has not yet reached that point.
The new beta release was described as quite large, following the immediately preceding largest initial release in Linux history. Much of this size was attributed to automated patching.
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