The 4.4 kernel is out

Linus has, as expected, announced therelease of the 4.4 kernel. Some of the headline features in this release includethe mlock2() system call withsupport for deferred memory locking,I/O polling in the block layer,the LightNVM patches for low-level controlof solid-state storage devices,the ability for unprivileged users to loadBPF programs into the kernel, and much more.Some more information can be found on the KernelNewbies 4.4 page.