Linus Torvalds is out today with the eighth weekly test release of the Linux 6.18 kernel in working toward the stable release at the end of the month.

Linux 6.18-rc6 is out today with another week’s worth of random fixes and improvements. It was a fairly smooth week and things appear to be pacing well for releasing Linux 6.18 stable on time in two weeks: 30 November. Otherwise there could be a one-week slip to 7 December but as it stands now it looks like it will be tracking well for releasing at the end of November.