Announced a few moments ago by Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 4.11 Release Candidate 5 comes one week after the previous RC version and appears to be a fairly normal patch consisting of about 60% updated drivers for PCI, EDAC, sound, block, etc., approximately 30% architecture updates, especially for PA-RISC, and the rest of 10% is split between filesystem ( mostly Btrfs and NFS) improvements and core kernel and mm changes. Now that the development cycle of the Linux 4.11 kernel has avanced to the fifth RC, and things have finally started to calm down, at least according to Linus Torvalds, we can finally guess that the final release could launch on time, which is April 23, 2017. But that will only happen if things don’t go the other way, and Linux kernel 4.11 gets the usual seven Release Candidates.