{"id":299608,"date":"2019-03-18T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299608"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T07:39:47","slug":"linux-kernel-5-1-development-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299608-linux-kernel-5-1-development-started.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel 5.1 development started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1903.2\/00496.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that development has started on Linux kernel 5.1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Sunday, and two weeks have passed, and everything is normal,&#8221; said Torvalds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You all know the drill by now &#8211; the merge window is closed, and things are supposed to calm down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Torvalds said that the merge window for Linux kernel 5.1 was &#8220;fairly normal&#8221; with no big outliers or oddities.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the first Release Candidate of Linux kernel 5.1 is now ready for testing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Torvalds, the release is of a regular size, with just over 60% of it constituting drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The final version of 5.1 is expected to launch in May, with either 5 May or 12 May being touted.<\/p>\n<p>The first Release Candidate can be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/kernel.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>kernel.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299538-huawei-has-a-backup-os-in-case-it-loses-access-to-android.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huawei has a backup OS in case it loses access to Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, announced that development has started on Linux kernel 5.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":144471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12605,1799,58058],"class_list":["post-299608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux","tag-linux-kernel-5-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299608"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299646,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299608\/revisions\/299646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}