Linux kernel 5.4 will be scheduled for release on November 24, 2019. And last weekend, Linus Torvalds has announced the final release candidate (RC).
Linus Torvalds in the mailing list announcement said, "I'm not entirely sure whether we need rc8, because although Intel hardware solutions landed last week, but last week is still quite calm. I therefore consider the completion of the final 5.4 and complete the work but I think, just be rc8 no real disadvantage. rc8 release cycle it took a while to let it calm down. "
It is reported that the last release candidate of Linux 5.4 contains some interesting things. For example, for the CPU side (iTLB Multihit and TSX asynchronous abort (TAA)) as well as mitigation measures for all the latest Intel vulnerability. End GPU (GPU hangs and invalid access), delete the vboxsf file system, which will stage a comeback in the Linux kernel 5.5, and the core network, KVM, VFS and VM were common bug fixes.
Details: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1911.2/01078.html
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