Linux Kernel 4.11 to Launch on April 30 as Linus Torvalds Released Eighth RC

We were expecting so see the final release of the Linux 4.11 kernel launch on Sunday evening, but it didn't happen as Linus Torvalds announced the eighth and last Release Candidate (RC) version instead.

According to Linus Torvalds, the release of Linux kernel 4.11 should have happened on Sunday, April 23, 2017, but things don't always go as planned, and it looks like some last minute blockers, such as some nasty issues with the NVMe power management support, were discovered, which is the main reason we see the RC8 build.

"So originally I was just planning on releasing the final 4.11 today, but while we didn't have a *lot* of changes the last week, we had a couple of really annoying ones, so I'm doing another RC release instead. I did get fixes for the issues that popped up, so I could have released 4.11 as-is, but it just doesn't feel right," said Torvalds.

Linux kernel 4.11 slated for release on April 30, 2017

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