The Linux Kernel was bumped to version 4.12 the other day; what’s striking about this release is how big it is. 795 lines of code were being added to the release every single hour during development.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the prominent maintainers of the Linux Kernel, has posted a new chart containing data about the Linux Kernel from version 4.7 to 4.12. The latest release which launched this past Sunday, version 4.12, saw a huge 795 lines of code added to the kernel every hour, and 19,093 lines added every day.
Some of the other data for the release is as follows:
The big release comes with a lot of new features and improvements, among the notable ones are improvements to the F2FS (flash-friendly file system) , initial support for GeForce GTX 1000 w/ Nouveau, initial Radeon RX Vega support, as well as support for the Intel RealSense SR300 camera, Razer Sabertooth controller, and Mad Catz Brawlstick.
In the Linux 4.12 release statement, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, said:
With 4.12 out the door, work on the next version, 4.13, has begun. The merge window for the next release is now open, and over the coming weeks we should see release candidates pushed out to allow for testing.
Source: Google+ via OMG Ubuntu
