While Linus Torvalds long has released his new kernel releases — both release candidates and the inaugural stable releases — every Sunday, there are the occasional exceptions like this week with Linux 5.12-rc2 being issued on Friday night. The Linux 5.12-rc2 release has come early due to that nasty file-system corruption issue stemming from botched swapfile handling…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early – A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue