Author: Chris Hoffman / Source: How-To Geek
Linus Torvalds just released version 5.0 of the Linux kernel, codenamed “Shy Crocodile”. Linux 5.0 includes Google’s new encryption tech as well as support for AMD FreeSync, Raspberry Pi touch screens, and more goodies.
Linux 5.0 arrived on March 3, 2019.
As Linus explained back in January on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML,) this isn’t really a huge release:The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it’s that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0…. There isn’t any major particular feature that made for the release numbering either. Of course, depending on your particular interests, some people might well find a feature _they_ like so much that they think it can do as a reason for incrementing the major number.
So go wild. Make up your own reason…
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