Open Source Report · releases

Filed by Patch Reyes

Linux 7.2 is out, and if history is any guide, that means another ~18,000 commits of driver fixes, scheduler tuning, and the eternal war against hardware vendors who still ship broken ACPI tables. This time Igalia had a hand in it — the employee-owned consultancy that does the unglamorous heavy lifting across graphics stacks, toolchains, and kernel internals while the rest of us argue about init systems for the millionth time. No, it won't magically un-jank your desktop, but somewhere out there a router just got a security fix it desperately needed. Version numbers keep climbing; the work — and the process — never changes.