Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.0-rc1

[AZgl1800]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... ures&num=1

just caught this article, did a search to see if it has been talked about here yet, but if it has, I didn't see it pop up

Several interesting new features going to be available.

this is helpful for me: Logitech high resolution scrolling support,

This should be very useful for a lot of folks: NVIDIA Tegra suspend-and-resume for the Tegra X2 and Xavier SoCs.

I hope this helps me, my laptop refuses to be consistent in power off/on....
POWER On-Chip Controller driver support.

and this will be well received:

Linux Storage / File-Systems

- Fscrypt Adiantum support for helping with fast data encryption on low-end hardware lacking native CPU extensions for accelerated crypto. This is Google's replacement to their prior plan of using NSA's Speck for low-end device data encryption.

- Minor FBDEV improvements and fixes.

- F2FS fixes now that Google is supporting the Flash-Friendly File-System on their Pixel devices.

- The Binderfs implementation for accessing Android's Binder inter-process communication mechanism from within containers.

- EXT4 fixes and XFS fixes.

- The Btrfs file-system restores support for swap files.

and oh wow!!! this is for me:
Realtek R8169 driver improvements.

Going to be interesting to see how well it all melds with Linux Mint releases.

[deepakdeshp]

Any idea if it's LTS

[gm10]

Any idea if it's LTS

It's not, it's not even released. It's just the first release candidate of the series, i.e. way too early to start looking at features, nobody can say what it will eventually release with. There's a new candidate every Sunday basically all year round, it's all they do at kernel.org...

[Hoser Rob]

Any idea if it's LTS

It's not, it's not even released. It's just the first release candidate of the series, i.e. way too early to start looking at features, nobody can say what it will eventually release with. There's a new candidate every Sunday basically all year round, it's all they do at kernel.org...

Yes, yes, yes, must I add it's not supported in Mint?

You want bleeding edge, install Arch or a similar true rolling release. But you will encounter a steep learning curve fixing the system many times at CLI level when (not if) an update breaks it. There's no way to have both stability and new software in Linux.

[AZgl1800]

Any idea if it's LTS

sorry,
I omitted noting that this is a rolling beta only....
not even close to being ready for Mint.

but it gives us an idea of what is destined for us in the future.
If you read the article closely, it plainly states this is on the bleeding edge, with weekly, if not daily, updates as the developers work on it.

For myself, I have to have a known entity, so I won't be downloading it and breaking my 18.3 Cinnamon.

I still don't like 19.1 so this 5.x kernel is going to take getting used to.

[Moem]

Getting used to a new kernel? Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean by that.
Getting used to a new version of your OS... now that I can sympathize with. But a kernel? What's to get used to?