Linus Torvalds, the person behind Linux Kernel, announced last week that the Linux Kernel 4.3 is now available for the users and comes with plenty of fixes and improvements.
Phoronix reports that the latest update contains 20.6 million lines. However, it’s not just pure code but includes documentation as well. Michael Larabel at Phoronix says that more than 14000 authors are working on the code and expects that the next version could surpass the 21 million lines mark.
Top contributors include Red Hat with 5.9 percent of commits, Intel with 5.32 and the Linux Foundation at 3.14. Suse, Linaro, Texas Instruments and Samsung are also among the top ten contributors. Phoronix added that Ubuntu/Canonical didn't make the top ten list.
The Inquirer quoted Torvalds when he commented on the biggest glitch of the cycle: "We had a network update and a late fix for a x86 vm86 mode bug introduced by the vm86 clean-ups, but other than that it's just a collection of various small one-liners all over. OK, the vm86 mode thing was a one-liner too, it was just slightly more nerve-racking because it looked scarier than it was before people (Andy) figured out what was going on."
Talking about Kernel 4.4, Torvalds added, “And with the release of 4.3, obviously the merge window for 4.4 is open, and let's keep our fingers crossed that that will be an equally calm release.”
