comment The first release candidate of Linux 6.17 is out, without any bcachefs changes… but not for any technical reasons. This is bad.

As we reported recently, kernel 6.17 is approaching . Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate on Sunday, August 10. Of course, he is irked about something – that's not unusual – but this time his ire is directed at late RISC-V patches .

However, as Phoronix notes , there is no new bcachefs code in this version so far. Developer Kent Overstreet did submit some minor changes at the end of July, saying:

So, the experimental label is coming off in 6.18.

However, Torvalds has not accepted the code. As we reported earlier in July , it looks like – without any official comment — the stable version of Linux's newest file system, first included in

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