The 4.16 kernel is out
Linus has released the 4.16 kernel, asexpected. "We had a number of fixes and cleanups elsewhere, but noneof it made me go 'uhhuh, better let this soak for another week'".Some of the headline changes in this release include initial support forthe Jailhousehypervisor, the usercopy whitelistinghardening patches, some improvements to the deadline scheduler and, ofcourse, a lot of Meltdown and Spectre mitigation work.