Today, September 4, 2016, Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability of the fifth RC (Release Candidate) development milestone of the forthcoming Linux 4.8 kernel branch.
Yes, that’s right, it’s Sunday, and tomorrow is Labor Day in the US, so it’s time to get your computer ready for some long testing sessions of the next major Linux kernel release, namely Linux 4.8, which has just received a new Release Candidate version that looks quite big compared to the previous RC.
According to Linus Torvalds, who has hoped to see things starting to calm down in the development cycle of Linux kernel 4.8, the fifth RC introduces some improvements to the Mellanox MLX5 network driver, various changes to the OverlayFS and NFS filesystems, and some other minor improvements here and there.
“So RC5 is noticeably bigger than rc4 was, and my hope last week that we were starting to calm down and shrink the releases seems to have been premature,” says Linus Torvalds in toda… (read more)
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