A day early than expected, the third Release Candidate build of the upcoming Linux 4.9 kernel was announced just a few minutes ago by Linus Torvalds himself because tomorrow he'll be attending the Linux Kernel Summit 2016 event in Santa Fe, USA.We have to admit that we didn't expect to see the Linux 4.9-rc3 kernel so soon, but it's good news if you're an early adopter and just can't wait to see what goodies the kernel developers have prepared for the final release of Linux kernel 4.9, which should land at the end of the first week of December 2016. One of the biggest changes in today's Linux kernel 4.9 RC3 release is a fix for a bug in the new virtually mapped stacks.
"It turns out that the bug that we thought was due to the new virtually mapped stacks during the rc2 release wasn't due to that at all, but a block request queuing race condition," said Linus Torvalds. "So people who turned of... (read more)
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