{"id":256421,"date":"2018-04-17T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=256421"},"modified":"2018-04-17T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T10:50:04","slug":"linux-4-17-development-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/256421-linux-4-17-development-underway.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux 4.17 development underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has started the development cycle of\u00a0the Linux 4.17 kernel series, according to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/linus-torvalds-kicks-off-linux-4-17-development-teases-the-linux-5-0-release-520712.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0first Release Candidate build has been released, and comes two weeks after the launch of Linux 4.16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public testers can start downloading, compiling, and installing the upcoming Linux 4.17 kernel,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>Torvalds said the latest release\u00a0won&#8217;t include any major new features, adding that the next big release will be called Linux 5.0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most special thing that happened is purely numerology: we&#8217;ve passed the six million git objects mark, and that is reason enough to call the next kernel 5.0,&#8221; said\u00a0Torvalds.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/256415-android-6-0-and-7-0-on-most-smartphones.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Android 6.0 and 7.0 on most smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has started the development cycle of\u00a0the Linux 4.17 kernel series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12605,1799],"class_list":["post-256421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256431,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256421\/revisions\/256431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}