Just a few moments ago, renowned Linux kernel developer and maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman had the great pleasure of announcing that the next LTS (Long-Term Support) kernel branch will be Linux 4.9.
The development cycle of a new Linux kernel branch doesn’t take more than a month and a half or a maximum of two months, depending if the respective series will receive seven or eight Release Candidate (RC) milestones, but LTS releases are picked by veteran kernel developers from time to time when older ones reach end of life (EOL).
Currently, the Linux kernel developers are working hard on bringing new features and improvements to the next major series, Linux 4.8, which received its first Release Candidate build last Sunday, August 7. Linux kernel … (read more)
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