From the LKML, Linus Torvalds has announced a new release of the new version of the Linux kernel, as usual. Everything seems to have returned to normal after Torvalds's departure from the project and his return. We already know that the jump from 4.x to 5.x numbering was made since the beginning of this year 2019 and now Linux 5.0 has been released and work is being done intensively on developing the next version: 5.1.
Well now we have linux 5.1 rc1, the new and first Release Candidate of branch 5.1. His departure was initiated the same last Sunday, after two weeks of work where everything has gone normal as the creator himself has been responsible for reporting. Nara weird, nothing worrisome, everything has gone as planned for the first candidate to become the final version of the nucleus, although more will come until the final and stable version is obtained.
Linus has also commented that in addition to the apparent normality it has not been too big a launch as it happens on some occasions, but that the launch was quite regular in every way. Regarding the volume of the code belonging to drivers or controllers, he himself has commented that it is around 60% or something more. Among the novelties of these controllers are some destined to accelerator chips for AI or artificial intelligence.
There are also driver changes for GPUs, networks, and block devices, among others. Likewise, some changes have been commented regarding the architectures supported by the kernel, and even certain subdirectories of documentation, updates in VFS along with other low-level changes in the FS or file systems, and a large etc., that you can already try if you get this RC1 in your distro ...