The 4.6 kernel has been released (original) (raw)

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.