Linux 4.0 may have only bug fixes, no new features

Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds has proposed that Linux 4.0, an upcoming release of the open-source software, should be dedicated to stability and bug fixing.

Although his initial reaction to a suggestion for a separate bug-fixing release from Dirk Hohndel, chief Linux and open source technologist at Intel, was to criticize it, as “I didn’t see most of us having the attention span required for that,” Torvalds is now asking for comments on a proposal to have Linux 4.0 as the bug-fix release in about a year’s time.