Linux 4.19.1 Released While 4.20~5.0 Merge Window Ends Today

[Space Heater]

>Meanwhile later today Linus Torvalds is
>expected to release Linux 5.0-rc1, or Linux
>4.20-rc1


I expect possible two day delay due to


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AMD's Zen 2 Could be Revealed on November 6th, "Next Horizon" Event Scheduled
by dmartin Friday, November 2nd 2018 12:55

https://www.techpowerup.com/249151/a...vent-scheduled

Why would they delay this kernel release for a hardware announcement?

[Guest]

Well AMD GPU is broken (again) for my R9 390. Display is either blank or extremely low resolution when I resume from suspend. Back to using Intel's stable GPU driver that just works.

[Peter Fodrek]

Why would they delay this kernel release for a hardware announcement?

Maybe due to new hardware category support it to call it 5.x not 4.x kernel. ..