Even if it’s Memorial weekend, Linus Torvalds is on the job announcing the release and immediate availability of the third RC (Release Candidate) milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel series.
According to Linus Torvalds, the development of Linux kernel 4.12 continues to look good, and today’s third Release Candidate build is a fairly normal patch consisting of two thirds updated GPU, SCSI, NVME, TTY, and Block drivers, and the rest is split between networking stack changes, core kernel, header files, XFS, and arch improvements. The biggest change, however, is a documention update as the Intel pstate docs were converted to the RST format.
“Hey, things continue to look good, and RC3 isn’t even very big. I’m hoping there’s not another shoe about to drop, but so far this really feels like a nice calm release cycle, despite the size of the merge window. Knock wood,” said Linus Torvalds in the ma… (read more)
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