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.
After being in development for the past two months, during which it received a total of seven RC (Release Candidate) builds, Linux kernel 4.6 is now here in its final production version, introducing a bunch of attractive new features, updated drivers, as well as numerous other security improvements.
“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. So 4.6 is out there at the normal schedule, and that obviously also means that I’ll start doing merge window pull requests for 4.7 starting tomorrow,” says Linus Torvalds.
Here’s what’s new in Linux kernel 4.6
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