Linux 5.0-rc8 Released - Baking The Final Kernel For One More Week

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.0-rc8 Released - Baking The Final Kernel For One More Week

Linus Torvalds opted for issuing an eighth weekly release candidate tonight for the Linux 5.0 kernel rather than going straight to the official/stable release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.0-rc8-Released

[Peter Fodrek]

Extreme version of pissible reason was to wait for LLVM 8 needed by some planned 5.1 merge window patches.

LLVM / Clang 8.0 Likely To Be Released Around Early March

Written by Michael Larabel in LLVM on 4 December 2018 at 01:37

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-8.0-Early-March-2019

Or 5.1 to be gift fir AMD's 50th anniversary
" Linux 5.1 going stable around 5 May, if all goes well."

1st May 1969
AMD Advanced Micro Devices is founded

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5944/AMD-Advanced-Micro-Devices-is-founded/

Or Waiting for gcc 9 for 5.2 merge window

GCC 9 Enters Its Final Stage Of Development, Releasing Around April
Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 7 January 2019

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9-Final-Development-Stage