Last week, Linus Torvalds published the Linux 5.4 XNUMXth Release Candidate. He commented that there were twists and turns, and that would likely make development of the next kernel version drag on for a week. But in a week many things can happen, such as everything returns to calm and in the release note de Linux 5-4-rc7 He has told us that it is probably not necessary to release that eighth Release Candidate. More specifically, you have to decide.
Among the notable changes included in Linux 5.4-rc7 we have the Virtualbox shared folder support arrives as something that is added late with the kernel driver vbox.sf. Although the admissions window was closed long ago, this new driver is allowed because it does not risk creating any regression to existing media.
Will there be Linux 5.4-rc8 or stable version?
So I'm leaning towards a rc8 which is probably next weekend because of that, but I won't make a final decision yet. We'll see. Last time, v5.3-rc7 was even bigger. We did a rc8 for that (although there were other reasons for that rc8). We'll see how this week goes and how I feel about it next Sunday. You may feel that there is no reason to do a rc8 at the moment.
Torvalds says that in Linux kernel v5.3 they did release an rc8, but the size was larger than this time and there were more reasons for it. This time it will depend on how you see it in seven days: if you think everything is correct, Linux 5.4 will be released next Sunday, November 17. Otherwise, the stable version will be released on the 24th after eight Release Candidates.
Linux 5.4 is the next version of the Linux kernel and as such it will include many new features in the form of support, but its most prominent feature is that it includes the security module Lockdown.