Gaël Portay
March 06, 2019
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The first major release of Linux for the year 2019 was made available earlier this week, and with it came a new version number: 5.0. However, as Linus pointed out, while this version change might seem significant, Linux doesn't do feature-based releases, and "it doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes".
As usual, Collabora was active in this latest release, with 9 developers authoring a total of 45 patches, 47 Signed-off-by tags and 9 Reviewed-by tags. Here's a look at some of the highlights:
Emil Velikov (4):
Enric Balletbo i Serra (7):
Ezequiel Garcia (11):
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (1):
Gustavo Padovan (1):
Helen Koike (2):
Robert Foss (3):
Sebastian Reichel (16):
Emil Velikov (4):
Robert Foss (2):
Sebastian Reichel (3):
Ezequiel Garcia (2):
Helen Koike (1):
Pekka Paalanen (1):
Sebastian Reichel (1):
Boris Brezillon (2):
Emil Velikov (2):
Enric Balletbo i Serra (2):
Ezequiel Garcia (1):
Helen Koike (1):
Sebastian Reichel (39):
Enric Balletbo i Serra (1):
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