The 4.8 kernel has been released

Linus Torvalds has announced the availabilityof the 4.8 kernel: "So the last week was really quiet, which maybe means that I couldprobably just have skipped rc8 after all. Oh well, no real harm done."Some of the headline changes in this release includesupport for transparent huge pages in the tmpfs filesystem,a new formatted documentation subsystem anda number of documentation changes to match,a new timeout subsystem that should addressthe latency problems experienced by its predecessor,continued work on the express data path forhigh-performance network routing,build-system improvements allowing the useof GCC plugins,the hardened usercopy security work,and much more. The KernelNewbies 4.8 page isstill under construction as of this writing, but should contain lots ofdetails in the near future.