The\u00a0Linux 4.13 kernel series has been released, with\u00a0Linus Torvalds urging users to move to the new version.<\/p>\n
Softpedia<\/strong><\/a> reported that the major\u00a0kernel branch features numerous improvements and support for new hardware.<\/p>\n This includes support for\u00a0Intel’s Cannon Lake and Coffee Lake CPUs.<\/p>\n “There’s also AMD Raven Ridge support implemented in the AMDGPU graphics driver, which received numerous improvements,” stated the report.<\/p>\n Other improvements include the EXT4 file system supporting more files in a single directory, up to 2 billion.<\/p>\n There is also support\u00a0for the F2FS file system, better performance for HTTPS, and\u00a0support for the SMB 3.0 protocol by default for CIFS mounts.<\/p>\n Linux kernel 4.13 is the latest stable kernel branch for GNU\/Linux distributions, stated the report.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Linux 4.13 kernel series has been released, with users urged to move to the new version.<\/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":[12605,1799,45857],"class_list":["post-228009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linux","tag-linux-4-13-kernel-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228009"}],"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=228009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228011,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228009\/revisions\/228011"}],"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=228009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0WhatsApp testing new business features<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"