Linus Torvalds decides world isn’t ready for Linux 5.0

guest · Jun 4, 2018

Linus Torvalds decides world isn’t ready for Linux 5.0
But he’s released a new kernel anyway and called it 4.17
June 4, 2018
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/linux_4_17_released/

Torvalds toyed with the idea of calling this release 5.0, because it passed the six million git objects mark. But he also said version numbers are meaningless and he might not call it 5.0.

“No, I didn't call it 5.0, even though all the git object count numerology was in place for that,” he added. “ It will happen in the not _too_ distant future, and I'm told all the release scripts on kernel.org are ready for it, but I didn't feel there was any real reason for it.”

With that out of the way, let’s consider what’s in this release – starting with what isn’t because Torvalds noted “4.17 is actually a slightly smaller kernel than 4.16, thanks to the removal of a number of effectively dead architectures (blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile).”
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chrisretusn · Jun 9, 2018

I hate those kind of headlines.

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