14 DAY TRIAL // It's Sunday again, so Linus Torvalds has just informed us about the immediate availability for download and testing of Linux kernel 4.1's seventh Release Candidate (RC) version, which might also be the last, according to Mr. Torvalds.
Looking at the changelog, Linux kernel 4.1 Release Candidate (RC) 7 is a pretty small milestone that consists of various interesting patches to various hardware architectures, including x86 perf constraints and some SPARC updates, as well as improved staging drivers.
"Normally rc7 tends to be the last rc release, and there's not a lot going on to really merit anything else this time around," says Linus Torvalds. "However, we do still have some pending regressions, and as mentioned last week I also have my yearly family vacation coming up, so we'll have a rc8 and an extra week before 4.1 actually gets released."
Linus Torvalds urges everyone to go forth and test this new Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 4.1 kernel and report bugs as soon as possible. You can download Linux kernel 4.1 RC7 right now via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website.
As usual, when testing an RC version of a software, please try to keep in mind that it's a pre-release version that might contain unresolved issues. Thus, we do not recommend installing it in production environments where stability is of the essence. Linux kernel 4.1 will be an LTS version!