Linus Torvalds Is Hopeful for a January 21 Release of the Linux 4.15 Kernel

The eighth and probably the last RC (Release Candidate) of the upcoming Linux 4.15 kernel series has been announced by Linus Torvalds over the weekend and it's now ready for public testing.

Coming a week after the seventh RC, Linux kernel 4.15 Release Candidate 8 is here with more patches against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities publicly disclosed earlier this month. Most specifically, it brings x86 "retpoline" support, a solution developed by Google and other security researchers to not allow speculation on the CPU.

Besides retpoline support, Linux kernel 4.15 RC8 isn't a major patch, as it only includes various smaller updates to the RISC-V and Powe... (read more)

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