Linus Torvalds forced to delay Linux 5.12 – TechRadar

Linus Torvalds, the maintainer of the Linux kernel, has deferred the final release of kernel 5.12 by at least a week.
The delay isnt totally unexpected. Torvalds hinted that the 5.12 development cycle may require an extra week of testing owing to the large number of changes in the previous release candidate (RC).
Ok, so it’s been fairly calm this past week, but it hasn’t been the kind of dead calm I would have taken to mean ‘no rc8 necessary’, wrote Torvalds as he put out the latest RC for testing.
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