As expected, Linus Torvalds made his Sunday announcement for the second RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now available for public testing.
Linux kernel 4.8 entered development last week, when the merge window was officially closed and the first Release Candidate development milestone released to the world. According to Linus Torvalds, the second RC build is here to update more drivers, even more hardware architectures, as well as to fix issues for supported filesystems and add some extra mm work.
“But that’s most likely just because the fixes to the bigger driver areas haven’t started trickling in yet – RC2 tends to be a quiet period after the craziness that is the merge window,” says Linus Torvalds in the announcement. “And the reason mm/ stands out is mainly just because of a pull request from the merge window that I had delayed until after rc1 … (read more)
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