Linus Torvalds ya dawo yin aiki bayan "hutu" don yin zuzzurfan tunani a kan harshensa a cikin LKML, bayan jagorantar aikin kwaya na kyauta, yanzu mun ga cewa muna da Linux 4.19 LTS da za a ci gaba da ci gaba da kulawa tare da faci da sabuntawa na dogon lokaci na lokaci. Bugu da ƙari, ayyukan shirye-shirye sun riga sun fara kuma abin da zai kasance Linux 4.20 ana ƙirƙira shi, a zahiri za ku iya riga kun sauke nau'ikan Linux 4.20 RC1 a kernel.org.
Bugu da ƙari, daga wannan, ga alama wannan zai zama kwaya ta karshe a reshen 4.x kuma cewa a cikin 'yan watanni, bayan RCs na ƙarshe na wannan reshe 4.20 da ƙaddamarwa ta ƙarshe da za a fara daga 4.20, 4 za su ƙare don maraba da 5. Linus Torvalds da kansa ya faɗi a cikin jerin sunayen cewa «dukkanmu za mu iya ƙidaya har zuwa 20 […] Lambar zagaye ce mai kyau. […] Ina tsammanin Linus 5.0 zai fita shekara mai zuwa, lokacin da yatsunmu suka ƙare (don ci gaba da ƙidaya).
An kiyasta, idan babu jinkiri a cikin RCs ko matsaloli na wasu nau'ikan da zasu iya jinkirta fitowar kamar yadda aka tsara, komai yana nuna cewa Linux 4.20 a cikin sigar ta ƙarshe za a sake shi a ƙarshen Disamba na wannan shekara, don haka idan ya kasance zaba don fara Linux 5.x, sigar Linux 5.0 zai isa cikin Janairu 2019. Kun riga kun san cewa lambobin sigar Linux ba su da ma'ana da yawa kuma waɗannan nau'ikan tsalle suna faruwa, ba tare da bin jerin layi ba, guje wa lambobin da suke da yawa don kada su dagula abubuwan da aka zana.
Hakanan kwanakin da suka kasance suna amfani dasu da iri har ma kamar wadanda suke da karko, kamar 2.4, 2.6, kamar yadda zaku tuna, kuma ga waɗanda basu da ƙarfi, ma'ana, ga waɗanda suke cikin ci gaba, ƙananan sifofin kamar 2.3, 2.7, da dai sauransu, kodayake ku tuna cewa wannan ya canza lokacin da bayan 2.6 ya tafi zuwa nau'ikan 3.x, inda ba a bi wannan dokar ba kuma ana amfani da RCs kawai ga candidatesan takarar cikin ci gaba da fasalin ƙarshe don mai karko ...