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Linux 4.11 kernel delivered without a hitch

Linus Torvalds has released the Linux kernel version 4.11. Last week, due to some NMVe glitches and bugs the release was postponed and Torvalds urged for more testing before releasing the kernel. Now the final 4.11 rc8 is released without any glitches.

“ So after that extra week with an rc8, things were pretty calm,” Torvalds posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, adding “ I' m much happier releasing a final 4.11 now.

Some of the hot features in this kernel is the swapping of solid state disks and supports journaling on RAID 4/5/6 volumes. And also supports the OPAL self-encrypting disk drive standard.

The kernel has also gained support for the Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) (SMC-R) specification, which allows the virtual machines to share the memory and also speeds up the communication between the machines and also load balancing.

The Enterprise users and gamers will be ecstatic that the kernel has added improved support for Intel’ s Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 which lets a CPU figure out which core is the fastest and increases it clock speed to meet the critical workload’ s needs.

This release means that the window is open for the next version of Linux kernel and the developers have little than a week to offer their codes to Linus Torvalds before he sets the assembly line on the next version.

Tag : Linux kernel
FAQ
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Can I get an account on kernel.org?
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Kernel.org accounts are usually reserved for subsystem maintainers or high-profile developers. It is absolutely not necessary to have an account on kernel.org to contribute to the development of the Linux kernel, unless you submit pull requests directly to Linus.
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Why is an LTS kernel marked as "stable" on the front page?
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Long-term support ("LTS") kernels announced on the Releases page will be marked as "stable" on the front page if there are no other current stable kernel releases. This is done to avoid breaking automated parsers monitoring kernel.org with an expectation that there will always be a kernel release marked as "stable."
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what is as maintainer of the audio subsystem?
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In the "by changesets" column, Chris Wilson ended up on top with a body of work mostly focused on the Intel i915 driver. Arnd Bergmann continues to apply fixes all over the tree, Ingo Molnar (primarily) contributed a massive reworking of the sched.h header file, Christoph Hellwig did significant work all over the block I/O subsystem, and Takashi Iwai added many patches as part of his role as maintainer of the audio subsystem.
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what is Kernel development statistics?
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Linus Torvalds recently let it be known that the 4.11-rc7 kernel prepatch had a good chance of being the last for this development series. So the time has come to look at this development cycle and the contributors who made it happen.
As of this writing, 12,546 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for 4.11, making this cycle more-or-less average for recent kernels. Those changesets were contributed by 1,723 developers and grew the kernel by nearly 300,000 lines. Note that the current record for the most developers participating is 1,729 for 4.9; if another half-dozen developers put in a fix for 4.11, that record could yet fall. Of the developers contributing to 4.11, 278 made their first contribution ever in this cycle.
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Rejoice, for Linux 4.11 has been delivered.why?
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The kernel has also gained support for the Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) (SMC-R) spec, an IBM invention that allows virtual machines to share memory and therefore speeds up communications between the machines, helps with load balancing and doesn't hurt when clustering Linux boxen.