Linus Torvalds Announces a "Bigger Than Average" Second RC of Linux Kernel 4.13

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The development cycle of the upcoming Linux 4.13 kernel series, whose release cycle was kicked off last week by none other than Linus Torvalds, continues today with the second Release Candidate (RC) milestone.

According to Linus Torvalds, this second Release Candidate of Linux kernel 4.13 is bigger than average, as the Linux creator would have expected to see things starting off a little slow at this stage of development, which could suggest the Linux 4.13 kernel cycle getting eight RCs instead of the usual seven that a normal release gets. But, after all, it’s too early to make any predictions.

“Normally RC2 is really small because people are taking a breather and haven’t started finding bugs yet, but this time around we have a bigger-than-average RC2,” said Linus Torvalds in the <a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermai… (read more)

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