14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds has announced last evening, October 13, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.12 is now available for download and testing.
Linux kernel 3.12 RC5 contains the usual architecture (ARM, x86, s390, tile) fixes, updates for the Btrfs filesystem and the perf tool, as well as numerous updated drivers, including GPU, HID, sound, i2c, watchdog.
"Things seem to be calming down nicely, and rc5 is smaller than previous rc's. In fact, the most excitement we had this week wasn't even a kernel bug, it was a compiler bug wrt "asm goto" that was found because of code that is pending to be merged in 3.13."
"But the (happily fairly straightforward) workaround for the bug was merged early, because we _do_ use asm goto, and it's unclear whether our existing use might already trigger the bug, just not enough to be as obviously noticeable," said Linus Torvalds in the official release announcement.
Download Linux kernel 3.12 RC5 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.