Kernel 4.17 is out, and details of changes from -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.0/01332.html

No real surprises, so far, and it is OK with VMware 14.1.2, and NVIDIA 396.24.

Apparently the major version bump to Linux 5.0 might occur at around the Kernel 4.20 mark….

Robert Gadsdon   June 3, 2018.