Linux Kernel 4.7 to Be Released July 24 as Linus Torvalds Announces the Last RC

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

It’s Sunday night, so guess what? Yes, that’s right, Linus Torvalds has just announced the availability of the seventh Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 4.7 kernel branch.

According to Linus Torvalds, things have again calmed down, and it looks like, with the exception of a couple of regressions, this could just be the last Release Candidate (RC) for Linux kernel 4.7, which means that the final release will be announced soon. Unfortunately, Mr. Torvalds will be on the move next week, so he’ll make the announcement one week later, on July 24, 2016.

“We’ve had a nicely calm week, which is what I expected – the last RC really was bigger just due to random timing issues, and not some worrying pattern about this release cycle,” said Linus Torvalds in today’s announcement. “Anyway, there’s a couple of regressions still being looked at, but unless anything odd happens, this is going to be the … (read more)

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