Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 4.15 of the Linux kernel.<\/p>\n
The release was recently delayed<\/strong><\/a> due to the disclosure of speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting many processors.<\/p>\n “This obviously was not a pleasant\u00a0release cycle, with the whole meltdown\/spectre thing coming in in the\u00a0middle of the cycle. The extra two weeks were obviously mainly due to that whole\u00a0timing issue,” said\u00a0Torvalds<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Torvalds added that the release of Linux 4.15 does not mean developers are finished dealing with the vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n There is more work to be done on patches for ARM-based processors. Torvalds also stated that programmers need the kernel updates and a compiler with support for the “retpoline” indirect brand model to enjoy full mitigation support.<\/p>\n “The bulk of the 4.15 work is all\u00a0the regular plodding boring stuff. And I mean that in the best\u00a0possible way,” said Torvalds.<\/p>\n Two thirds of the updates in the kernel involved drivers, which include graphics processors, input, and networking driver updates.<\/p>\n Linus Torvalds has released version 4.15 of the Linux kernel.<\/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":[1799,48577,48074,48076],"class_list":["post-246635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linux","tag-linux-4-15","tag-meltdown","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246635"}],"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=246635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246649,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246635\/revisions\/246649"}],"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=246635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0The fastest and slowest versions of Linux<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"