Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.10 RC7, Final Release Coming February 12

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

It’s Sunday evening again, and this means Linus Torvalds is announcing the availability of a new RC (Release Candidate) build of the forthcoming Linux 4.10 kernel branch, the seventh in the series.

According to Linus Torvalds, things have been very quiet since the sixth Release Candidate of Linux kernel 4.10, and this RC7 build, which also appears to be the last, is a small one that brings various updated GPU, HID, and networking drivers, a bunch of improvements for the ARM64, PowerPC (PPC), SPARC, and x86 hardware architectures, as well as various other fixes to supported filesystems, virtual machine support, networking stack, and genksyms scripting.

“It’s all been very quiet, and unless anything bad happens, we’re all back to the regular schedule with this being the last RC,” said Linus Torvalds in today’s <a href… (read more)

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