Linux Kernel 4.15 Delayed Until Next Week as Linus Torvalds Announces a Rare RC9

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

While the Linux community was looking forwards to the final Linux 4.15 kernel release today, Linus Torvalds just delayed it for another week, announcing the ninth Release Candidate (RC) instead.

It’s not every day that you see a ninth Release Candidate in the development cycle of a new Linux kernel branch, but here we go, and we can only blame it on those pesky Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities that affect us all, putting billions of devices at risk of attacks.

That, and the fact that things haven’t calmed down since last week’s eight Release Candidate, which was supposed to be the last for the upcoming series. According to Linus Torvalds, there are st… (read more)

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