Linus Torvalds Hopes to Release the Linux 4.12 Kernel in Two Weeks, on July 2

A day later than usual, here's the sixth Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel series, as announced today by Linus Torvalds on the kernel mailing list.

We have to admit that we were a little worried that Linus Torvalds didn't announce the new RC release of Linux 4.12 yesterday, but the only reason for that would be because he's traveling, and so it turned out to be. Linus is currently in Beijing, China, most probably attending the LinuxCon ContainerCon CloudOpen China conference that takes place between June 19-20, 2017.

Linux kernel 4.12 RC6 is a small release, final could launch July 2, 2017

However, Linus Torvalds gives us good news on the progress of the upcoming Linux 4.12 kernel, saying th...