It’s Sunday evening, so guess what you’ll be doing in the next few hours? Yes, that’s right, Linus Torvalds has just announced the fourth RC (Release Candidate) version of the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel branch.
The development of Linux kernel 4.8 continues today with the Release Candidate 4 (RC4) snapshot, and, according to Linus Torvalds, things are looking quite normal at this stage, but it also looks like this is the smalles RC until now. The biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug. However, there are also the usual updated drivers, arch improvements, and some KVM changes.
“Everything looks normal, and it’s been a bit quieter than rc3 too, so hopefully we’re well into the “it’s calming down” phase. Although with the usual timing-related fluctuation (different maintainers stagger their pulls differently), it’s hard to tell a trend yet.,” says Linus Torvalds in today’s announcement. “Regardless, it all looks pretty small.”
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