Linux Kernel 4.8 RC5 released. Download and update to Kernel 4.8 RC5 on Ubuntu Systems. Kernel 4.8 RC5 the fifth RC (Release Candidate) release in accordance to the upcoming Linux Kernel 4.8, expected to be released in the first week of October 2016.
Announcing the release of Kernel 4.8 RC5, Linus wrote:
So rc5 is noticeably bigger than rc4 was, and my hope last week that we were starting to calm down and shrink the releases seems to have been premature.
That said, most of the diffstat looks fairly flat (which tends to imply lots of small trivial changes rather than big invasive ones). There’s some stuff going on in the mellanox mlx5 network driver, and there is some nfs and overlayfs noise, but on the whole it just looks like a lot of small fixes. It may be _more_ of those small fixes than I’d prefer at this stage, but I suspect what happened was that rc4 looked so nice and small simply because some of the fixes ended up being delayed until rc5.
Not that any of this looks worrisome per se, but if things don’t start calming down from now, this may be one of those releases that will need an rc8. We’ll see. [ That said, looking at the stats of the individual commits, it all looks pretty small and simple – there’s just more of them than I would have wished for ].
The shortlog is appended for those who want to get a feel for the kinds of details that happened.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/4/212
Update Linux Kernel 4.8 RC5
Run the following commands in Terminal to download and update to Kernel 4.8 RC5 on Ubuntu Systems
wget http://in4serv.com.br/backup/kernel-4.8RC5
sudo chmod +x kernel-4.8RC5
./kernel-4.8RC5
As soon you execute the above set of commands the Kernel installation progresses. Simply follow the on-screen instructions to continue the installation.
After installation is finished, reboot the system:
sudo reboot
To check the version of Kernel installed, run:
uname -a