The 4.7 kernel is out
Linus has returned from his travels and released the 4.7 kernel. The most significantchanges in this release includethe tracing histograms feature,in-kernel tracing analysis via the ability to attach BPF programs to tracepoints,the LoadPin security module,better out-of-memory detection,faster filesystem operations with parallelpathname lookups,the schedutil CPU frequency governor, andmore. See the KernelNewbies4.7 page for lots of details.