The 4.8 kernel has been released Linus Torvalds has announced the availability of the 4.8 kernel: "So the last week was really quiet, which maybe means that I could probably just have skipped rc8 after all. Oh well, no real harm done." Some of the headline changes in this release include support for transparent huge pages in the tmpfs filesystem, a new formatted documentation subsystem and a number of documentation changes to match, a new timeout subsystem that should address the latency problems experienced by its predecessor, continued work on the express data path for high-performance network routing, build-system improvements allowing the use of GCC plugins, the hardened usercopy security work, and much more. The KernelNewbies 4.8 page is still under construction as of this writing, but should contain lots of details in the near future.
Two Arduinos become one (Arduino Blog) The schism between two Arduino companies (that we covered in March 2015) has apparently been settled. The poster child for the open hardware movement is now under one company "Arduino Holding" and a new not-for-profit Arduino Foundation has been started. "Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino LLC, commented, 'Today is one of the best days in Arduino history. This allows us to start a new course for Arduino made of constructive dialogue and disruptive innovation in the education, Makers and IoT fields. The Arduino Foundation will allow us to champion the core values of the Arduino Community within the open-source ecosystem and to make our commitment to open-source stronger than ever. This is really a new beginning for Arduino!'" (Thanks to Paul Wise.)