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Yes, it's Sunday, and yes, Linus Torvalds has just announced the availability of a new RC (Release Candidate) development milestone towards the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel series.
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According to Linus Torvalds, the third Release Candidate build of Linux kernel 4.8 consists of approximately 60% updated drivers for things like USB, GPU, networking, and EDAC, core networking improvements, various improvements to the XFS file systems, minor arch updates, and other small documentation and scheduler fixes.
The fourth Linux kernel 4.5 Release Candidate milestone should be available to public testers next week, on August 28, the fifth one will arrive on September 4, the sixth on September 11, and the seventh on September 18. Therefore, the final Linux 4.7 kernel release should land on September 25, 2016. Full Story |
