Linus Torvalds announced the availability of the fourth RC (Release Candidate) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.9 kernel series.
According to Mr. Torvalds, who deliberately released the new Release Candidate version a day early than expected (again), the Linux kernel 4.9 RC4 release appeared to have already been big enough, which is due to the fact that there are a bunch of updated drivers, lots of networking fixes, as well as improvements for filesystems that triggered the bug in the new virtually mapped stacks.
“So I’m not going to lie: this is not a small RC, and I’d have been happier if it was. But it’s not unreasonably large for this (big) release either, so it’s not like I’d start worrying,” said Linus Torvalds. “I’m currently still assuming that we’ll end up with the usual seven Release Candidates, assuming things start calming down. We’ll see how that goes as we get closer to a release.”
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