The second release candidate of the Linux 4.13 kernel is now available for testing.

Here are some numbers about how much weight the kernel gained during the Linux 4.13 merge window that closed last week.

For users of Fedora 25 and Fedora 26, the Linux 4.12 kernel will soon be sent down as a stable release update.

Frequent Phoronix readers may recall that for more than one year a new Linux Random Number Generator has been in-development and today marked the 12th version of these patches being released.

Linus Torvalds has announced the end of the Linux 4.13 kernel merge window one day early and with that 4.13-rc1 is now available.

The Linux 4.13 kernel changes for the UBIFS file-system have been submitted.

The thermal management updates have landed in the Linux 4.13 code-base.

The Linux 4.13 merge window is nearing the end and while there is a lot of new features/changes, there is some functionality that you won't find in this next version of the upstream Linux kernel.

For those behind on their Phoronix reading or that of the Linux kernel mailing list, here's a look at all of the prominent changes and new features merged so far during the Linux 4.13 cycle.

Last week we reported that RISC-V developers hoped their kernel port would land in Linux 4.13 but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.

The F2FS file-system changes for Linux 4.13 are fairly exciting.

David Airlie has submitted the staged Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates for the Linux 4.13 kernel merge window.

Dmitry Torokhov submitted the input subsystem updates today for the Linux 4.13 kernel merge window.

Consulting firm KDAB has announced their newest research and development project, Hotspot. The Hotspot program is a Qt-powered GUI to the Linux perf subsystem.

Christoph Hellwig has called on Linus Torvalds to pull a new "dma-mapping" subsystem into the Linux 4.13 kernel.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) support has been worked on within Linux drivers in the past while now with Linux 4.13 WMI has been reworked into its own proper bus.

Arnd Bergmann has sent in his seven pull requests of the many ARM SoC and platform changes targeting the Linux 4.13 kernel.

The Linux 4.13 kernel that's in development will pick up a big code contribution from Canonical as they have prepped a lot of their AppArmor security changes for mainlining, some of which code has been sitting in Ubuntu's kernel build for years.

The GNU Linux-Libre 4.12 kernel is now available and is the sanitized version of the Linux 4.12 kernel to ensure no binary-only firmware blobs are loaded or used by this trimmed down Linux kernel.

Greg KH has sent in the staging code updates for the Linux 4.13 merge window.

Greg KH has submitted pull requests of Linux 4.13 feature updates for the various subsystems he oversees, including the char/misc driver patches.

Scheduler improvements are en route for the Linux 4.13 kernel.

The Linux 4.13 kernel will bring at least one new subsystem.

The Linux 4.12 kernel has now been officially released.

With Linux 4.12 likely coming out this weekend, here's a look at some of the features you will likely be able to find within Linux 4.13.

If all goes according to plan, the Linux 4.12 kernel will be officially released before the weekend is through. Here's a recap of some of the most exciting changes for this imminent kernel update.

Igor Stoppa of Huawei continues working on a new kernel feature to provide read-only protection for dynamic data.

Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 4.12-rc7 with what could be the final release candidate prior to declaring the stable Linux 4.12 kernel.

Due to Linus Torvalds' travels, he's released the 4.12-rc6 kernel off of his weekly Sunday release cadence.

Jerome Glisse at Red Hat continues working on Heterogeneous Memory Management for the mainline Linux kernel and hopefully will be merged soon. He's now extended HMM with cache-coherent device memory support.