{"id":191456,"date":"2016-12-12T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T07:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=191456"},"modified":"2016-12-12T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T07:32:32","slug":"linux-kernel-4-9-officially-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/191456-linux-kernel-4-9-officially-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel 4.9 officially released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has released the\u00a0Linux 4.9 kernel, an update that brings new features and drivers.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/linux-kernel-4-9-officially-released-with-support-for-amd-radeon-si-gcn-1-0-gpus-510879.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>, Linux kernel 4.9 entered development in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Torvalds decided to cut the merge window short by a day&#8230; to prevent [people] from sending last-minute pull requests that might cause issues,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;most advanced version available on the market for GNU\/Linux distributions&#8221; is the &#8220;biggest release we&#8217;ve ever had&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1612.1\/01831.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>said\u00a0Torvalds<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the number of lines changed, we&#8217;ve had bigger releases in the past, but they have tended to be due to specific issues. In contrast, 4.9 is just big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New features of\u00a0Linux 4.9 kernel include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experimental support for older AMD Radeon graphics cards.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual display support and better reset support for modern\u00a0AMD Radeon GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>DMA-BUF implicit fencing for Intel GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Intel Skylake improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/189668-linux-developers-move-to-windows-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Linux developers \u2013 move to Windows 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 4.9 kernel, an update that brings new features and drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1799,40178],"class_list":["post-191456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linux","tag-linux-4-9-kernel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191456"}],"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=191456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191458,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191456\/revisions\/191458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}