Linux 3.12 Released, Linus Proposes Bug Fix-Only 4.0

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Linus Torvalds announced the Linux 3.12 kernel release (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1311.0/00914.html) with a large number of improvements through many subsystems including new EXT4 file-system features, AMD Berlin APU support, a major CPUfreq governor improvement (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=19208) yielding impressive performance boosts for certain hardware/workloads, new drivers, and continued bug-fixing. Linus also took the opportunity to share possible plans for Linux 4.0 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUwMzA). He's thinking of tagging Linux 4.0 following the Linux 3.19 release in about one year and is also considering the idea of Linux 4.0 being a release cycle with nothing but bug-fixes. Does Linux really need an entire two-month release cycle with nothing but bug-fixing? It's still to be decided by the kernel developers.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/11/04/011227/linux-312-released-linus-proposes-bug-fix-only-40