{"id":217942,"date":"2017-07-03T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=217942"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:11:32","slug":"linux-kernel-4-12-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/217942-linux-kernel-4-12-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel 4.12 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Kernel 4.12 has been released, which <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1707.0\/00325.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Linux creator Linus Torvalds described<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as \u201cone of the bigger releases historically\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Torvalds said Linux Kernel 4.12 is big, \u201calthough the reason isn&#8217;t just that there&#8217;s a lot of development, we have the added bulk of a lot of new header files for the AMD Vega support\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/linux-kernel-4-12-officially-released-with-amd-vega-support-many-improvements-516784.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia reported<\/strong><\/a> that prominent features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initial support for AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics cards.<\/li>\n<li>Initial Nvidia GeForce GTX 1000 &#8220;Pascal&#8221; accelerated support.<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of Budget Fair Queueing and storage-I\/O schedulers.<\/li>\n<li>More MD RAID enhancements.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Raspberry Pi&#8217;s Broadcom BCM2835 thermal driver.<\/li>\n<li>F2FS optimisations.<\/li>\n<li>ioctl for the GETFSMAP space mapping ioctl for XFS and EXT4 file systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Torvalds said the official release of Linux Kernel 4.12 means that the merge window for 4.13 is now open.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/215886-linux-4-14-kernel-will-be-a-long-term-support-branch.html\">Linux 4.14 kernel will be a Long Term Support branch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Kernel 4.12 has been released, which Linux creator Linus Torvalds describes as \u201cone of the bigger releases historically\u201d.<\/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":[12605,1799],"class_list":["post-217942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217942"}],"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=217942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217978,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217942\/revisions\/217978"}],"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=217942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}