As usual every week, Kernel 4.12 has released a new version candidate, in particular they are already in the third candidate version. This means that there is one week less for the official stable version to be released, which we are all waiting for.
This third release candidate as usual it has corrected the bugs and errors detected in the previous release candidate. They have also focused on updating all the drivers as usual.
This time have updated GPU drivers, SCSI controllers and NVME controllers among others. They have also improved the XFS file system among other minor changes. Without a doubt, an update that has few changes, as is usual in this type of updates.
The only change that is out of the ordinary is a Intel p state driver documentation update, which has been converted from the traditional doc format to the RST format.
Without a doubt, Kernel 4.12 tiJan very good looking and this third RC represents it perfectly, since we can see that there are no big changes, which means that there are hardly any errors to correct. However, there are still a few more candidate versions left before the official version comes out.
The official version is scheduled for early July, but it is not known if it will be for day 2, or if it will be for day 9. This would depend on the number of candidate versions, since if they release seven versions, we would have it on day 2. However, if an eighth version is necessary RC, this would come out on July 2, delaying the release of the official version to day 9.
If you can't wait any longer and you want try this RC version now, You can do it as usual through the official website of kernel.org, in which you will have to download the mainline version. Of course, remember that it is not stable and that it should not be used in delicate development environments.