{"id":136860,"date":"2015-08-31T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=136860"},"modified":"2015-08-31T08:08:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T06:08:46","slug":"linux-4-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136860-linux-4-2-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux 4.2 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has announced that Linux 4.2 is now available, and that the merge window for 4.3 is now open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wouldn&#8217;t have been a mistake to release 4.2 last week after all, but hey, there&#8217;s certainly a few fixes here, and it&#8217;s not like delaying 4.2 for a week should have caused any problems either,\u201d Torvalds said.<\/p>\n<p>Linux 4.2 includes a re-write of Intel Assembly x86 code, new ARM board support, and a new AMDGPU kernel driver.<\/p>\n<p>Other improvements include F2FS file-system encryption support, NV-DIMM support, and other new Linux hardware support.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Linux<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/135456-ibm-unveils-linux-only-mainframes.html\">IBM unveils Linux-only mainframes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/89045-special-laptop-keys-with-linux.html\">Special laptop keys with Linux<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has announced that Linux 4.2 is now available &#8211; providing improvements to the operating system\u2019s functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,12605,1799],"class_list":["post-136860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136864,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136860\/revisions\/136864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}