It’s still Sunday in the U.S., so Linus Torvalds just published his weekly announcement to unleash yet another Release Candidate (RC) development snapshot of the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel series.
According to Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.8 Release Candidate 6 is here to a week’s work of solid patches, updated drivers, and improvements to the supported hardware architectures and file systems, but also to update the core networking and sound stacks, as well as add many other small mm and core kernel changes. Of course, many of the issues reported by users since the previous RC release have been fixed as well.
“Things calmed down, and look very normal. About two thirds driver updates, with half of the remainder being misc architecture updates, and the rest being random stuff (some fs/crypto fixes etc),” says Linus Torvalds in today’s release announcement. “I still haven’t decided whether we’re… (read more)
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