Linus Torvalds ‘starting to get worried’ as Linux kernel 5.17 rc6 lands

Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds is “starting to be a bit worried” by lack of progress on version 5.17 of the project. In his weekly state of the kernel post, he opened with an observation that “whatever crazy things are going on in the world (and I personally had ‘Zombie apocalypse’ on my bingo card, not ‘Putin has a mental breakdown’), it doesn’t seem to have affected the kernel much.”