{"id":176309,"date":"2016-08-17T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176309"},"modified":"2016-08-17T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:16:25","slug":"linux-kernel-4-6-reaches-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/176309-linux-kernel-4-6-reaches-end-of-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel 4.6 reaches end of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those using\u00a0a GNU\/Linux operating system powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.6 branch<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have been urged to\u00a0move to Linux kernel 4.7.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/linux-kernel-4-6-has-reached-end-of-life-users-urged-to-move-to-linux-4-7-1-507365.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>, users have been advised to\u00a0install the new Linux kernel 4.7.1 build.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m announcing the release of the 4.6.7 kernel. All users of the 4.6 kernel series must upgrade,&#8221; said Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Note, this is the last 4.6.y kernel to be released, please move to 4.7.1 now, you have been warned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes after the\u00a0first point release for the\u00a0Linux 4.7 kernel series.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Linux<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175154-linux-risk-in-windows-10-exposed.html\">Linux risk in Windows 10 exposed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174734-libreoffice-5-2-launched-for-windows-mac-os-and-linux.html\">LibreOffice 5.2 launched for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those using a GNU\/Linux operating system powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.6 branch have been urged to move to Linux kernel 4.7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,1799],"class_list":["post-176309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176309"}],"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=176309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176313,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176309\/revisions\/176313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}