Linux 4.0 Kernel Released

An anonymous reader writes "The Linux 4.0 kernel has been released. Linux 4.0 brings many features including live patching, Radeon DisplayPort Audio, RadeonSI fan control improvements, new OverlayFS functionality, Intel Quark SoC support, and a heck of a lot more. Linus's release announcement reads in part: "So I decided to release 4.0 as per the normal schedule, because there really weren't any known issues, and while I'll be traveling during the end of the upcoming week due to a college visit, I'm hoping that won't affect the merge window very much. We'll see. Linux 4.0 was a pretty small release both in linux-next and in final size, although obviously 'small' is all relative. It's still over 10k non-merge commits. But we've definitely had bigger releases (and judging by linux-next v4.1 is going to be one of the bigger ones)."

Comments

Moving too fast - boycott the Linux Kernel!

[Anonymous Coward]

Four major versions in 25 years, who does Linus think he is? He's drunk with power!

Re: Is it as secure as OpenBSD's kernel?

[Anonymous Coward]

You do understand that Shellshock was not a Linux vulnerability, right?

Re:Arbitrary major version jumps

[Anonymous Coward]

Our sales department decided in our contracts a (totally arbitrary) policy to "support" only the last 3 major versions of our products. This means we periodically update the major version just so we can stop supporting the older versions even if there are not any major new features.

Re:2.6.32 anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

I suppose I should start looking to upgrade my old Centos 6.6 box. I'm running a 2.6.32 kernel on that. I've thought about upgrading to the new Centos 7,0 but I'm not sure I want to fuck with it. The current system I have works perfectly and does exactly what I need it to do.

Well Centos 7 will cure that. It's based on systemd.

Re:Is it as secure as OpenBSD's kernel?

[TheRaven64]

Here's the list, though a few are mis-filed (the arbitrary code execution from this year is actually in Flash, no idea why it appears here), but most of the privilege elevation ones from this year and most of the arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities are real (though several seem to be in Logitech HID drivers).