Linux 4.7 Kernel Officially Released
As expected, the Linux 4.7 kernel was officially released this Sunday afternoon.
Linus commented in the release announcement, "Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn't all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners. There's a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving. Appended is the shortlog since rc7 for people who care: it's fairly spread out, with networking and some intel Kabylake GPU fixes being the most noticeable ones. But there's random small noise spread all over."
If you aren't familiar with the Linux 4.7 kernel, see our feature overview or for a short synopsis, this morning's Linux 4.7 biggest features.
Now to start talking more about Linux 4.8... For those curious about the size of Linux 4.7, here is the fresh cloc numbers I just ran on this kernel:
Linus commented in the release announcement, "Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn't all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners. There's a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving. Appended is the shortlog since rc7 for people who care: it's fairly spread out, with networking and some intel Kabylake GPU fixes being the most noticeable ones. But there's random small noise spread all over."
If you aren't familiar with the Linux 4.7 kernel, see our feature overview or for a short synopsis, this morning's Linux 4.7 biggest features.
Now to start talking more about Linux 4.8... For those curious about the size of Linux 4.7, here is the fresh cloc numbers I just ran on this kernel:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C 23054 2224358 2046861 11333930 C/C++ Header 17559 426872 729704 2798041 Assembly 1416 47407 110844 241769 XML 181 3436 243 50370 make 2192 8266 7870 34984 Perl 47 4622 3597 24341 Bourne Shell 190 2011 3367 10707 Python 43 1550 1662 8513 yacc 8 655 355 4327 HTML 4 509 0 4284 lex 8 299 288 1891 Bourne Again Shell 48 390 261 1612 C++ 1 231 58 1581 awk 10 132 129 1130 NAnt script 2 128 0 475 Pascal 3 49 0 231 Lisp 1 63 0 218 Objective C++ 1 55 0 189 m4 1 15 1 95 XSLT 6 13 27 71 vim script 1 3 12 27 Windows Module Definition 1 0 0 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 44777 2721064 2905279 14518794 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------