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An Anonymous Coward writes:

El Reg has noted:

Torvalds looses neatened number [release featuring] non-disruptive patches, Z13 support, and more.

[...] The new number isn't a sign of a major upgrade. As we've chronicled, Torvalds thinks that it looks a bit silly when version numbers go beyond x.19.

As the Benevolent Dictator for Life says in his post at the kernel mailing list:

since rc7 [...] It's mainly driver fixes (media, sound, pci, scsi target, drm, thermal..), misc arch updates (nios2 and x86), and scattered fixes elsewhere. Really not a lot during the last week.

After you folks hammered on the 7 release candidates and gave the kernel team bug reports, any drama seems to have been wrung out.

We previously discussed the never-need-to-reboot patching feature that has now been incorporated into the kernel.