Linux 4.13-rc7 Kernel Released, Linux 4.13 Likely Coming Next Week

Just days after Linux turned 26 years old, Linus Torvalds has announced the seventh weekly test candidate of the upcoming Linux 4.13 kernel.

Linus wrote of 4.13-rc7, "So here's rc7, and I still expect this to the the last rc, although the best-laid plans of mice and men.. rc7 is pretty small, with most of the changes in drivers and architecture as usual. That said, this time "most" is only _just_ true, we have enough other changes that drivers and arch fixes is only about 60% of the patch. There's header files, VM, networking, core kernel, documentation, scripts.."

For those unfamiliar with the changes of this new kernel, see our Linux 4.13 feature overview.