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Phoronix announced yesterday, 11 December 2016, and Linus confirms, the release of Linux Kernel version 4.9 at Kernel.org.
Highlights listed by Phoronix include:
- Memory Protection Keys (MPK) are now mainlined.
- Support for vmapped kernel stacks, one of Torvalds' favorite features for Linux 4.9.
- Experimental AMDGPU Southern Islands support / GCN 1.0 for AMDGPU, but keep in mind it's disabled by default and needs to be set at kernel build-time, similar to the experimental GCN 1.1 / CIK support for AMDGPU DRM.
- Improved P-State performance for some Intel Atom CPUs.
- AMDGPU virtual display support.
- Support for 29 more ARM machines by the mainline Linux kernel.
- The introduction of a new subsystem, Greybus.
- Various file-system improvements.
Your humble submitter is posting the story from his system running a freshly-compiled 4.9 kernel, so it's guaranteed to be a real thing.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:13AM
For the curious but lazy, this is the commit. [kernel.org] It's a massive commit message with history, references to previous commits, rationale, future plans, etc.
About all it's missing is an abridged history of the Linux kernel (and maybe a reference to his usenet flame war with Tanenbaum).
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday December 15 2016, @02:12PM
(that's just the first instance I found, I'm 99% sure he got swearier elsewhere).
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