We gotta do this again? Really? Oh, alright then. But this eight release candidates thing is not great
Linux kernel development boss Linus Torvalds has reluctantly issued an eight release candidate for version 5.12 of the FOSS OS. “Ok, so it’s been _fairly_ calm this past week, but it hasn’t been the kind of dead calm I would have taken to mean „no rc8 necessary,” Torvalds wrote in his customary Sunday afternoon (US time) update on the state of kernel development. “So here we are, with an extra rc to make sure things are all settled down.
