LinuxChanges
Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are LWN kernel status, H-Online, or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface inwww.lkml.org). List of changes of older releases can be found at LinuxVersions. If you're going to add something here look first at LinuxChangesRules!
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Linux 4.1 has been released on Sun, 21 Jun 2015
Summary: This release adds support for Ext4 encryption, experimental support for managing clustered raid arrays, a new device mapper target that logs all writes to the devices and allows to replay them, a driver to turn the memory in persistent memory systems in a block device, support for disabling multi-user support, support for the Multiprotocol Label Switching which routes packets based on path labels rather than long network addresses, allow to attach BPF programs to kprobes for better probing, ACPI support for the ARM64 architecture, and a virtual GEM driver that allows improved software rasterizers. There are also new drivers and many other small improvements.
- Prominent features
- Ext4 encryption support
- Experimental cluster support for MD
- Device mapper: new target that logs writes
- Single user support
- Virtual GEM driver for improved software rasterizers
- Block device for persistent memory
- Multiprotocol Label Switching
- BPF programs can be attached to kprobes
- ACPI support for the ARM64 architecture
- Drivers and architectures
- Core (various)
- File systems
- Block
- Cryptography
- Memory management
- Security
- Tracing & perf
- Virtualization
- Networking
- List of merges
- Other news sites
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