With a one-day delay, the sixth Release Candidate (RC) of the upcoming Linux 4.14 LTS kernel arrived for public testers, announced by Linus Torvalds himself.The delay happened because Linus Torvalds had some Internet problems, and this made the Linux kernel 4.14 RC6 milestone a bit bigger than expected. This translates to the fact that it's no longer clear if the next long-term supported kernel series will arrive on time, on November 5, 2017, or if it will get delayed with one week.
"RC6 is a bit larger than I was hoping for, and I'm not sure whether that is a sign that we _will_ need an RC8 after all this release (which wouldn't be horribly surprising), or whether it's simply due to timing. I'm going to leave that open for now, so just know that RC8 _may_ happen," said Linus Torvalds in the read more)
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