The LKMLs have been stirred again, this time to announce the arrival of the new release, the new version of the kernel. Now we can download and test the linux 5.0 rc7, that is, the seventh Release Candidate of the 5.0 series that has started this 2019. This time there have been no surprises or negative things, the development has simply continued as planned, and unlike the previous release, it has not been something too big and heavy.
Linus Torvalds has been in charge, as usual, of announcing the launch of this new version by the LKML. If you want to download this new version of the free kernel, you can do it from now on the kernel.org. You already know that if you are a beta tester, you will be able to report problems and help to polish version 5.0 to prepare it for its final release that will not come too late. And if you want to know what's new, keep reading ...
It's a pretty quiet release, in fact Torvalds's announcement has also been simple and concise. He himself has been in charge of saying that it is a great week and very calmly as he likes (in terms of development), and that everything seemed as expected. Some new features have been added regarding drivers or controllers, such as those referring to the GPU, networks, Input, md, block, sound, etc.
The rest of optimizations and correction of errors or bugs they have overwhelmed architectures, such as ARM64, ARM, x86, and virtualization with KVM. There was also some fix work for the network and several more (filesystem, etc). The new kernel is small («pretty small«) As Linus has communicated, and how he likes it. If you want to see the complete list of changes, you can take a look at the email of the Linux Kernel Mailing Lists in this link that I leave you. We are excited waiting for the final version!