{"id":165114,"date":"2016-05-16T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165114"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T10:28:11","slug":"linux-kernel-4-6-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/165114-linux-kernel-4-6-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel 4.6 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has announced the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1605.1\/05030.html\" target=\"_blank\">release of Linux 4.6<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 4.6 kernel on the whole was a fairly big\u00a0release. More commits than we&#8217;ve had in a while. But it all felt\u00a0fairly calm despite that,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Phoronix <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=linux-46-features&amp;num=1\" target=\"_blank\">highlighted<\/a><\/strong> a number of changes in the new kernel, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OrangeFS support.<\/li>\n<li>USB 3.1 SuperSpeed Plus support, which promises\u00a0transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps.<\/li>\n<li>Intel Memory protection keys support.<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia\u00a0GeForce GTX 900 Maxwell support.<\/li>\n<li>Dell XPS 13 Skylake support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Softpedia also <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/linux-kernel-4-6-officially-released-introduces-orangefs-usb-3-1-ssp-support-504088.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a number of features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvements to the reliability of the Out Of Memory task killer.<\/li>\n<li>Kernel Connection Multiplexor, a new component designed for accelerating application layer protocols.<\/li>\n<li>802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec) support.<\/li>\n<li>Online inode checker for the OCFS2 file system.<\/li>\n<li>Support for the BATMAN V protocol.<\/li>\n<li>pNFS SCSI layout support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Linux<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/159936-why-linux-succeeded-where-others-failed.html\"><strong>Why Linux succeeded where others failed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/145899-linux-encryption-ransomware-hacked-how-to-get-your-files-back.html\"><strong>Linux encryption ransomware hacked \u2013 how to get your files back<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of the Linux kernel has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,12605,1799,37196],"class_list":["post-165114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux","tag-linux-4-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114"}],"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=165114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165146,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114\/revisions\/165146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}