upgrade to 4.8.0 rc2 from 4.8.0 rc1 went fine as well, also gets set as default booted kernel in grub2 uname -a Linux linux 4.8.0-rc2-2.g0fce644-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 16 17:00:15 UTC 2016 (0fce644) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux linux:~ # rpm -aq | grep kernel kernel-default-4.7.0-3.1.ga8847da.x86_64 kernel-default-4.8.rc1-1.1.gf3b2ad2.x86_64 kernel-default-4.8.rc2-2.1.g0fce644.x86_64 kernel-firmware-20160503-3.1.noarch