Linux Kernel 4.11 could be available as of April 23

On the last day of Easter, although this is not the case in the part of Spain where a server resides, he brought a new egg in the form of a new Release Candidate version of Linux Kernel 4.11, as Linus Torvalds announced in a informative note published last Sunday April 16. Most likely it will be the last RC, so we can think that the final version will be released next week.

Torvalds says that everything was very calm during the past week, or at least that was until Friday, at which point they had to reverse some things that were not working and it was not worth trying to repair at that point because most of the staff are already thinking about the next version, which in all probability will be Linux Kernel 4.12.

We can install Linux Kernel 4.11 from April 23

The seventh Release Candidate or RC of Linux Kernel 4.11, which Linus Torvalds referred to in his note last Sunday, does not include changes more important than the past RC beyond updated drivers, improvements for ARM, IA64, PA-RISC and x86 architectures, and bug fixes for Btrfs, CIFS and OrangeFS file systems.

The latest changes to the kernel, its tools and changes to the header files have also been included, so it does not seem likely that an eighth Release Candidate will be released and we can expect Linux Kernel 4.11 to be available for download and installation from April 23.

Although that same day we will be able to install it, personally I recommend waiting for the new version to appear in "Software update", unless we experience a hardware failure that we hope to fix with a kernel update. If despite our warnings you want to try it, you can download it from the web kernel.org.