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The 4.12 Linux Kernel was finally released earlier today. Linus Torvalds announced in lkml.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n Things were quite calm this week, so I really didn’t have any real reason to delay the 4.12 release.<\/p>\n As mentioned over the various rc announcements, 4.12 is one of the bigger releases historically, and I think only 4.9 ends up having had more commits. And 4.9 was big at least partly because Greg announced it was an LTS kernel. But 4.12 is just plain big.<\/p>\n There’s also nothing particularly odd going on in the tree – it’s all just normal development, just more of it that usual. The shortlog below is obviously just the minor changes since rc7 – the whole 4.12 shortlog is much too large to post.<\/p>\n In the diff department, 4.12 is also very big, although the reason there isn’t just that there’s a lot of development, we have the added bulk of a lot of new header files for the AMD Vega support. That’s almost exactly half the bulk of the patch, in fact, and partly as a result of that the driver side dominates everything else at 85+% of the release patch (it’s not all the AMD Vega headers – the Intel IPU driver in staging is big too, for example).<\/p>\n But aside from just being large, and a blip in size around rc5, the rc’s stabilized pretty nicely, so I think we’re all good to go.<\/p>\n Go out and use it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Kernel 4.12 top features:<\/p>\n The mainline kernel PPA has made the binaries for the new kernel release, available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n\n
How to Install Kernel 4.12 in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint:<\/h4>\n
<\/i>The mainline kernels<\/a> do not include any Ubuntu-provided drivers or patches. They are not supported and are not appropriate for production use.<\/div><\/div>\n