Launched this past Sunday, Linux 4.12 had 19,093 lines of code per day added to it by dedicated programmers. Greg Kroah-Hartman, a prominent maintainer of the Linux Kernel, posted a chart containing data about the development effort behind the latest release.
Other data about the release included:
- Commits: 14,570
- Number of files: 59,806
- Number of lines: 24,170,860
- Lines added: 1,202,920
- Lines removed: 168,962
- Lines modified: 141,550
- Number of developers: 1,821
- Changes per day: 231
- Changes per hour: 9
- Lines added per day: 19,093
- Lines removed per day: 2,681
- Lines changed per day: 2,246
- Lines added per hour: 795
Among the major new features and improvements, the most notable include enhancements to F2FS, initial support for GeForce GTX 1000 w/ Nouveau and Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, as well as support for Intel’s RealSense SR300 camera, Razer’s Sabertooth controller, and Mad Catz’s Brawlstick.
