Linux 7.2 is expected to be released next weekend, barring any significant issues. The release candidate, Linux 7.2-rc7, shows continued high kernel activity, a trend attributed partly to AI coding and review agents. Numerous bug fixes have been integrated across various kernel subsystems. The HWMON hardware monitoring subsystem received fixes for critical and high severity bugs. A long-standing eight-year race condition in memory management causing a use-after-free vulnerability has been resolved. The Btrfs filesystem has had its fixup worker infrastructure restored to address silent data loss. The networking area saw the implementation of many AI-related patches. The kernel has also been patched to address the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability. Linus Torvalds noted that while the volume of fixes is high, nothing appears overtly alarming, with most changes being small. Several larger changes include fixes for s390/zcrypt, the Btrfs fixup worker restoration, and netfilter ipset fixes, spread across drivers, filesystems, networking, and architecture code.