The fourth 3.12 prepatch is out for testing. “Hmm. rc4 has more new commits than rc3, which doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy, but nothing major really stands out. More filesystem updates than normal at this stage, perhaps, but I suspect that is just happenstance. We have cifs, xfs, btrfs, fuse and nilfs2 fixes here.“
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