Confirms version 5.16 will receive an eighth release candidate
Linus Torvalds has confirmed that version 5.16 of the Linux kernel will take a little longer to develop than usual, thanks to Christmas. “Things are calming down, and rc6 is fairly small,” he wrote in his weekly State of the Kernel post. “That’s normal for this time in the release schedule, but it’s also normal for this time of year.” The emperor penguin opined that “the next two weeks will be very quiet, and smaller still.” So he’s confirmed the thought bubble he floated last week about allowing version 5.16 of the kernel to reach an eighth release candidate.
