Being Sunday evening and all that, Linus Torvalds just made its regular announcement a few moments ago informing the community about the release of the fifth RC (Release Candidate) milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel series.
Linux kernel 4.12 RC5 does not follow in the footsteps of last week’s Release Candidate 4 milestone, nor any of the other previous RCs and appears to a slightly bigger patch that adds numerous updated drivers, especially GPU, SCSI, networking, sound, and block layer ones, various improvements for the ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), x86, SPARC and PPC (PowerPC) hadware architectures, and updates to the Btrfs, EXT4 and UFS filesystems.
“It’s not like RC5 is *huge*, but it definitely isn’t the nice and small one I was hoping for. There’s nothing in particular that looks very worrisome, and it may well just be random timing – the RC sizes do fluctuate a lot depending on just which subsystem gets synced up that particular RC, and we may just have hit… (read more)
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