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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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:52PM
In view of the reception that believers get around here, I'm tempted to toss a "Let it be so, Lord! Amen!" at you.
But, I don't really feel that way, and I can't quite stoop to that level of trolling. Oh well - I can sit here and chuckle at the heart attacks that it WOULD have caused!