Today, May 15, 2016, Linus Torvalds has announced the final release of the long-anticipated Linux 4.6 kernel, which is now available for download for all GNU/Linux operating systems.
Here's what's new in Linux kernel 4.6
Prominent features of Linux kernel 4.6 include the implementation of the OrangeFS distributed file system, support for the USB 3.1 SuperSpeed Plus (SSP) protocol, offering transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, improvements to the reliability of the Out Of Memory task killer, as well as support for Intel Memory protection keys.
Moreover, Linux kernel 4.6 ships with Kernel Connection Multiplexor, a new component designed for accelerating application layer protocols, 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec) support, online inode checker for the OCFS2 file system, support for the BATMAN V protocol, and support for the pNFS SCSI layout.
Lastly, Linux kernel 4.6 includes support for cgroup namespaces and dma-buf, a brand new ioctl engineered to manage cache coherency between the CPU and GPU. As usual, numerous drivers have been updated, and lots of bugs have been resolved.
You can download Linux kernel 4.6 sources right now from kernel.org.
Here's what's new in Linux kernel 4.6
Prominent features of Linux kernel 4.6 include the implementation of the OrangeFS distributed file system, support for the USB 3.1 SuperSpeed Plus (SSP) protocol, offering transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, improvements to the reliability of the Out Of Memory task killer, as well as support for Intel Memory protection keys.
Moreover, Linux kernel 4.6 ships with Kernel Connection Multiplexor, a new component designed for accelerating application layer protocols, 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec) support, online inode checker for the OCFS2 file system, support for the BATMAN V protocol, and support for the pNFS SCSI layout.
Lastly, Linux kernel 4.6 includes support for cgroup namespaces and dma-buf, a brand new ioctl engineered to manage cache coherency between the CPU and GPU. As usual, numerous drivers have been updated, and lots of bugs have been resolved.
You can download Linux kernel 4.6 sources right now from kernel.org.
