As expected on a late Sunday evening, Linus Torvalds had the pleasure of announcing a few moments ago the immediate availability of the second Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel series.
According to Linus Torvalds, the Linux 4.12 RC2 kernel patch is a little bigger than last week’s first Release Candidate, but nothing out of the ordinary. It includes updated networking, GPU, USB, MD, watchdog, and staging drivers, improvements to the x86, ARM64 (AArch64), ARM, s390 and PowerPC (PPC) hardware architectures, KVM updates, as well as various core networking, bpf, filesystems changes.
“I’m back on the usual Sunday schedule, and everything else looks fairly normal too. This RC2 is maybe a bit bigger than usual, but the whole merge window was bigger than most, so maybe it’s just that. And it’s not like it’s huge – usually the RC2 week is fairly quiet as people find issues,” said Linus Torvalds in the <a href="http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/li… (read…
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