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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.18 RC1 with new proposed features along with minor fixes. Well in the last announcement, Linus claimed that he will not extend the merge window for Kernel 3.18 due to three weeks continuous travelling, but now he says that he was lieing earlier.

According to official announcement, Linus Torvalds quips about this release, "What happened is that not only did I merge actively despite travels - I was out of communication just for a couple of days (almost, but not entirely, due to flights - the hotel in Düsseldorf lost all internet for a day too). But perhaps more importantly, people seem to have aggressively sent in their pull requests, because rc1 contains more than linux-next did a couple of days after 3.17.. So holding it up another week just seems pointless".

About the developers reviews and more pull requests, Linus explains that "I realize that people might have taken my statements at face value, and planned with that in mind. I hate it when I get pull requests really late in the merge window, but having closed it as per the regular schedule, I also understand that somebody might have planned on sending their pull request a bit later. It's ok. Grovel a bit, and explain what's up, and you can almost certainly guilt me into taking stuff".

Linus about his rude behavior state that "maybe I just missed something due to jetlag (hmm. yes, let's call it "jetlag", that sounds so much better than "core incompetence and bad planning"), so if you feel unfairly overlooked, send me a note explaining how I've unfairly wronged you". Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in recent Kernel release candidates release ?

The shortlog for Kernel 3.18 RC1 is too much big as it contains roughly 74% driver changes, 10% architecture updates, rest networking, file system, core kernel, documentation include files, tool updates. We have also enlisted some of the bugfixes and changes which you would find in this release. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

- vfs updates.

- VFIO updates.

- do_umount fix.

- pivot_root() fix.

- UBI/UBIFS fixes.

- LLVM updates.

- PCI updates.

- EDAC fixes.

- MTD update.

- nfsd updates.

These some of the updates and changes made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC1. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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