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The 4.6 kernel has been released
Linus has released the 4.6 kernel, saying:
"It's just as well I didn't cut the rc cycle short, since the last
week ended up getting a few more fixes than expected, but nothing in there
feels all that odd or out of line."
Some of the more significant changes in this release are:
post-init read-only memory as a bare
beginning of the effort to harden the kernel,
support for memory protection keys,
the preadv2() and pwritev2()
system calls,
the kernel connection multiplexer,
the OrangeFS distributed filesystem,
compile-time stack validation,
the OOM reaper, and many more.
See the KernelNewbies 4.6
page for an amazing amount of detail.