Linux kernel 4.1 RC6 is now available for testing

Jun 1, 2015 02:35 GMT  ·  By

It's Sunday, so guess what?! Linus Torvalds has just announced yet another Release Candidate (RC) version for the forthcoming Linux kernel 4.1, available for download and testing right now.

According to Linus Torvalds, the sixth Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming Linux 4.1 kernel is a big release that consists of updated drivers, especially for SCSI, GPU, RAID, DM, and networking, architecture updates, filesystem improvements (XFS, OverlayFS, CIFS), and the usual patches for networking and documentation.

"It's been a fairly normal week, although I can't say that the rc's have exactly started shrinking yet," says Linus Torvalds. "No, the rc's haven't been all that big to begin with this release cycle, and things have been fairly calm, but I'd be happier if we didn't have noise in raid5 and device-mapper at this stage."

As such, those of you want to give this milestone a try need to download the Linux kernel 4.1 RC6 sources from the kernel.org website of via Softpedia. We must warn you though that this is a pre-release version of Linux kernel 4.1, and it contains unresolved issues. Thus, you should not install it in production environments where stability is of the essence.