As expected, Linus Torvalds made his regular Sunday announcement to inform us about the availability of the fourth Release Candidate (RC) development release of the upcoming Linux 4.11 kernel.
Coming one week after the third Release Candidate, Linux 4.11 RC4 appears to be just a bit smaller than the previous build, updating the networking stack and many of the supported drivers to be on par with what was changed earlier this week in the stable Linux kernel branches.
“So last week, I said that I was hoping that RC3 was the point where we’d start to shrink the RCs, and yes, RC4 is smaller than RC3. By a tiny tiny smidgen,” said Linus Torvalds. “It does touch a few more files, but it has a couple fewer commits, and fewer lines changed overall. But on the whole, the two are almost identical in size.”
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