Linus Torvalds Telah Rilis Kernel 4.6

Kernel 4.6 Release

Tepat pada tanggal pada tanggal 15 Mei 2016 lalu, Linux Kernel 4.6 resmi diluncurkan yang merupakan seri terakhir dari Linux Kernel 4.6. Kernel ini di rilis kurang lebih 2 bulan setelah Kernel 4.5 rilis. Tapi Kernel 4.6 tidak akan mendapat dukungan panjang.

1. Yang menonjol

1. USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus (10 Gbps) support
2. Improve the reliability of the Out Of Memory task killer
3. Support for Intel memory protection keys
4. OrangeFS, a new distributed file system
5. Kernel Connection Multiplexor, a facility for accelerating application layer protocols
6. 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)
7. BATMAN V protocol
8. dma-buf: new ioctl to manage cache coherency between CPU and GPU
9. OCFS2 online inode checker
10. Support for cgroup namespaces
11. Add support for the pNFS SCSI layout

2. Core (various)
3. File Systems

• OrangeFS
• Btrfs  
• XFS ext2
• OCFS2  
• NFS 
• ext4
• ext2
• F2FS
• FAT 
• PSTORE  
• AUTOFS
• CACHEFILES

4. Memory Management

5. Block Layer

6. Cryptography

7. Security

8. Tracing & Perf Tool

9. Virtualization

10. Networking

• Add 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec) (featured)
• Add the Kernel Connection Multiplexor (featured)
• Add BATMAN V protocol support (featured)
• BPF 
• TCP
• IPv4
• IPv6
• Wireless
• ethtool
• geneve
• bridge
• Reliable Datagram Sockets
• Bluetooth
• Inifiniband
• Netfilter  
• Netlink
• openvswitch
• vxlan
• Add sysctl drop_gratuitous_arp (default off)
• Add sysctl drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast (default off)
• Export ip fragment sysctl to unprivileged users
• Add dst cache support for gre lwtunnels
• traffic control
• flower classifier
• Add MSG_BATCH flag in sendmsg(2)'s msg_hdr flags
• And More... 

11. Architectures

• ARM 
• ARM64  
• X86 
• POWERPC
• S390  
• XTENSA 
• SH  
• MICROBLAZE 
• SPARC  
• ARC
• M68KNOMMU  
• H8300 
• ALTERA  

12. Drivers

1. Graphics
2. Storage
3. Staging
4. Networking
5. Audio
6. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
7. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
8. USB
9. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
10. Watchdog
11. Serial
12. ACPI, EFI, cpufreq, thermal, Power Management
13. Real Time Clock (RTC)
14. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
15. Rapid I/O
16. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
17. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
18. Multi Media Card
19. Industrial I/O (iio)
20. Multi Function Devices (MFD)
21. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)
22. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
23. General Purpose I/O (gpio)
24. Clocks
25. PCI
26. Various

Baca selengkapnya di http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.6

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