Linux Kernel 4.8 Officially Released, Merge Window for Kernel 4.9 Now Open

Posted by hanuca on Oct 2, 2016 11:17 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Today, October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now the latest stable and most advanced one.

Linux kernel 4.8 has been in development for the past two months, during which it received no less than eight Release Candidate (RC) testing versions that early adopters were able to compile and install on their GNU/Linux operating system to test various hardware components or simply report bugs. That's right, the Linux 4.8 kernel series was one of those special ones that received that eighth Release Candidate.

A lot of things have been fixes since last week's RC8 milestone, among which we can mention lots of updated drivers, in particular for GPU, networking, and Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module (NVDIMM), a bunch of improvements to the ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 hardware architectures, updates to the networking stack, as well as to a few filesystem, and some minor changes to cgroup and vm.

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