Linux Kernel 4.8 Could Land October 2 as Linus Torvalds Announces the Seventh RC

Linus Torvalds just made his regular Sunday announcement to inform the community about the availability of the seventh and last Release Candidate (RC) development build of the forthcoming Linux 4.8 kernel series. According to Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.8 Release Candidate 7 is once again bigger in patches than he was expected. Last week, we reported that things are calming down and that this series will be a normal one with seven RCs, but it now looks like it won't happen, and there should be one more RC released next week, September 25, 2016. "Normally RC7 is the last in the series before the final release, but by now I'm pretty sure that this is going to be one of those releases that come with an RC8," says Linus Torvalds. "Things did't calm down as much as I would have liked, there are still a few discussions going on, and it's just unlikely that I will feel like it's all good and read...