The final Linux Kernel 3.2 should be available by New Year's Eve

Dec 24, 2011 17:37 GMT  ·  By

Linus Torvalds announced last night, December 23rd, that (probably) the last Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.2 is available for download and testing. 

Linux kernel 3.2 RC7 brings, as usual, assorted bug fixes, new drivers and other improvements. The upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will probably be powered by the Linux kernel 3.2.

"There it is, likely the last -rc in before final 3.2, so please do check it out in between your holiday festivities."

"Most of the changes are faily simple one-liners, but some qla4xxx driver updates stand out and in fact account for about 40% of the diff ("qla4xxx: fix flash/ddb support"). That, together with a VMWare DRI driver update and some dvb updates and the regular random driver fixes means that 80+% of the changes are in drivers." - said Linus Torvalds in the email.

Download Linux Kernel 3.2 RC7 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it is intended for testing purposes only.