Itechnology

After the release of Linux Kernel 3.16, Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC1 which is the first release candidate under 3.17 series. This release mainly includes new proposed features for Kernel 3.17 along with fixes which were reported in previous series. He also made a note that the upcoming RC2 will also be small like this release.

According to official announcement, Linus Torvalds state that "I'm going to be on a plane much of tomorrow, and am not really supportive of last-minute pull requests during the merge window anyway, so I'm closing the merge window one day early, and 3.17-rc1 is out there now. Well, it's been out for a while now, but the network was bad enough where I'm traveling that I couldn't get this *announcement* out".

Linus Torvalds also state that this candidate is probably is smaller than previous ones and consider it is an average release which contains shortlog, some of them illustrated below. About this Linus state that "It's certainly big enough that I can't post the shortlog, so as usual this just appends the "mergelog" where the people credited are the people I pulled from, not necessarily the people who wrote the code". Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in recent releases of Kernel ?

The Linux Kernel 3.17 RC1 includes minor changes with no huge new architectures or filesystems. It primarily includes three quarters of changes belongs to drivers and rest nearly half of changes includes some architecture updates along with miscellaneous changes for networking and filesystem. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software news. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.