The 4.5 kernel has been released
Linus has released the 4.5 kernel."So this is later on a Sunday than my usual schedule, because I justcouldn't make up my mind whether I should do another rc8 or not, andkept just waffling about it. In the end, I obviously decided not to,but it could have gone either way."Some of the headline features from the development cycle aredm-verity forward errorcorrection,optional mandatory locking,the new copy_file_range() systemcall,the SOCK_DESTROY operation,another set of persistent-memoryimprovements,extended address-space layout randomizationon 32-bit systems,the MADV_FREE option formadvise(),the UBSAN checker tool,some extensions toepoll_wait(),project quotas for the ext4 filesystem,and more.