We’ve had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now. It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and it’s finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team. On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. Other than that it’s really just a mixed bag of various odds and ends. In the diffstat, the loongarch updates stand out, as does another batch of the networking sysctl READ_ONCE() annotations to make some of the data race checker code happy. The full shortlog (just from rc8, obviously not all of 5.19) is below, but I can happily report that there is nothing really interesting in there. So here we are, one week late, and 5.19 is tagged and pushed out. It should be the last 5.xx version, with Linux 6.0 coming for the next cycle: Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 5.19.
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