Linus Torvalds kicked off the development of Linux kernel 4.14 last week when he announced the first Release Candidate, and now the second RC is available packed full of goodies. These include updated networking, GPU, and RDMA drivers, improvements to the x86, ARM, PowerPC, PA-RISC, MIPS, and s390 hardware architectures, various core networking, filesystem, and documentation changes. The development cycle of the Linux 4.14 kernel series, which will be the next LTS (Long Term Support) version, will continue next Sunday, October 1, with the third Release Candidate. If you’re curious to see what exactly has been changed in this update, you should check out the appended shortlog that’s been attached by Linus Torvalds’ on his announcement.