Linux 7.3-rc3 Arrives With XFS? SMB Security Fixes and a Continued AI Patch Surge

On September 13, Linus Torvalds issued the third release candidate for the 7.3 series of the Linux kernel, describing it as "another fairly large rc release" and citing a major contribution to the filesystem as the reason, as stated in his announcement. This version includes changes to the XFS filesystem, security and correctness fixes for the SMB client, and once again a further set of patches generated by AI which the maintainers have to go through by hand. The schedule for the stable release