{"id":351166,"date":"2026-02-22T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/351166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:52:11","slug":"linux-7-0-credits-now-honor-the-creator-of-linux-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/351166\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LINUX KERNEL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/linuxkernel.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/search\/Linux+7.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux 7.0<\/a> codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell&#8217;s contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Rothwell stepped down in mid-January from maintaining Linux-Next. He still plans to be around the Linux kernel community but a less grueling role than creating and maintaining Linux-Next since 2008.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771800730_324_image.webp\" alt=\"Linux-Next Git\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Linux-Next for those unaware is a testing\/queuing area where new patches can be found that are aiming for being submitted for the next kernel merge window. The various &#8220;-next&#8221; subsystem Git branches and the like feed into Linux-Next for a leading-edge area where the various latest patches are accumulated before their eventual pull requests to Linus Torvalds as part of the merge windows. In effect, a nice development tree in working towards ultimately all coming together in Linus Torvalds&#8217; Linux Git tree. It helps developers working on cross-subsystem changes as well as users\/testers who want to test the very latest development code before it hits Linux Git without having to manually deal with all the different Git topic branches.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771800731_971_image.webp\" alt=\"Linux-Next in CREDITS\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Brown has taken over from Stephen Rothwell in maintaining Linux-Next since January. In further honoring Stephen Rothwell&#8217;s contribution of creating and maintaining Linux-Next from 2008 to 2026, a subtle but important recognition is now in place in <a href=\"https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git\/commit\/?id=aaf96df9593bf4ab1b73c17891e4efe7570fdef3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux&#8217;s CREDITS file<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[36622,18,19,17,36621,36619,36618,36625,36623,36620,36624,36617,36628,82,36626,36627],"class_list":{"0":"post-351166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-linux-benchmarking","13":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","14":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","15":"tag-linux-how-to","16":"tag-linux-performance","17":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","18":"tag-open-source-graphics","19":"tag-phoronix","20":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","23":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116116740258980186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}