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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.6 RC6, Dubbed "Charred Weasel"

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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It's Sunday night, so Linus Torvalds has announced the release of a new RC build for the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel series, which has been dubbed "Charred Weasel."

The sixth Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 4.6 kernel is here to add a fix for an old issue with the InfiniBand interface, which shouldn't have affected too many people, update multiple drivers, in particular for things like GPU, networking (mostly Ethernet), and sound, improve the networking stack, as well as to add various changes to the x86, ARM, and s390 hardware architectures.

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