The truth is that when reading the informative note From the development of the Linux kernel this week I have felt identified. And it is that Linus Torvalds, the father or root of the penguin systems, has not stopped working even on the Easter weekend. This is how he explained it, that you can go with the family, take a trip and, even so, continue working on the projects we have in hand (something that I have also done), in this case Linux 5.1.
As on other occasions, it seems that the Easter meals have affected the Linux kernel, since Linux 5.1-rc6 it's bigger than usual again. Torvalds was a bit surprised to see its size, but analyzing everything he had understood that it was not something unusual. This is something that also happened in rc6 of v4.18 and v5.0, the latest versions available for Ubuntu family operating systems.
Linux 5.1-rc6: bigger than normal again
Taking into account that this has already happened to him in past releases, Torvalds is not worried. The person responsible for the increase in size this time is related to network extraction requests, which occupies a third part of the network-related changes, both in drivers and in cores.
On the other hand and as usual, it is also have updated other componentssuch as nvdimm, iio, gpu drivers, architectures and tools. Other changes are related to mm kernels and file system fixes. Not counting the size, Linux 5.1-rc6 is totally normal.
Linux 5.1 will be officially released on May 5, unless they find a large stone on the road, in which case it will be thrown on the 12th of the same month. Updating to the latest version can fix hardware failures that we are experiencing. Will you do it on the day of its release?
