14 DAY TRIAL // Another Sunday, another Linux kernel release is available for testing, as announced by Linus Torvalds a few minutes ago. The third Release Candidate version of the forthcoming Linux 4.2 kernel series is now ready for download.
According to Mr. Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.2 Release Candidate 3 is a fairly normal release that contains numerous driver updates, architecture improvements, especially for ARM, x86, ARC, s390, and m68k, file systems enhancements, networking fixes, and some other small stuff.
"Normal Sunday release schedule, and a fairly normal rc release," says Linus Torvalds. "There was some fallout from the x86 FPU cleanups, but that only hit CPU's with the xsaves instruction, and it should be all good now. [...] I'd have liked rc3 to be slightly smaller than it is, but I don't think there's anything _particularly_ scary going on."
As usual, those of you who want to take the new Release Candidate build of the anticipated Linux 4.2 kernel for a test drive on their testing environments can download Linux kernel 4.2 RC3 right now via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website. Just keep in mind that it's a pre-release piece of software, not suitable for deployment on production environments.