Linux kernel 4.6 released

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 4.6.

“The 4.6 kernel on the whole was a fairly big release. More commits than we’ve had in a while. But it all felt fairly calm despite that,” he stated.

Phoronix highlighted a number of changes in the new kernel, which include:

• OrangeFS support.
• USB 3.1 SuperSpeed Plus support, which promises transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps.
• Intel Memory protection keys support.
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 900 Maxwell support.
• Dell XPS 13 Skylake support.

Softpedia also noted a number of features:

• Improvements to the reliability of the Out Of Memory task killer.
• 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.
• pNFS SCSI layout support.

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