Linux Kernel 4.12 Officially Released with AMD Vega Support, Many Improvements

After seven weeks of announcing Release Candidate (RC) versions, Linus Torvalds today informs the Linux community about the general availability of the Linux 4.12 kernel series.

Development on the Linux 4.12 kernel kicked off in mid-May with the first RC, and now, seven weeks later we can finally get our hands on the final release, thanking God it wasn't one of those kernel releases that get eight RCs instead of seven. A lot of great improvements, new hardware support, and new security features were added during all this time, which makes it one of biggest releases, after Linux 4.9.

"As mentioned in the various RC announcements, 4.12 is one of the bigger releases historically, and I think only 4.9 ends up having had more commits. And 4.9 was big at least partly because Greg announced it was an LTS kernel. But 4.12 is just plain big," said Linus Torvalds in today's announcement where he invite... (read more)

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