The 4.6 kernel has been released
Linus has released the 4.6 kernel, saying:"It's just as well I didn't cut the rc cycle short, since the lastweek ended up getting a few more fixes than expected, but nothing in therefeels all that odd or out of line."Some of the more significant changes in this release are:post-init read-only memory as a barebeginning of the effort to harden the kernel,support for memory protection keys,the preadv2() and pwritev2()system calls,the kernel connection multiplexer,the OrangeFS distributed filesystem,compile-time stack validation,the OOM reaper, and many more.See the KernelNewbies 4.6page for an amazing amount of detail.