wraggster
September 14th, 2015, 20:40
Mr. Torvalds has released Linux 4.3-rc1 (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1509.1/03200.html) this weekend. He characterized the release as "not particularly small — pretty average in size, in fact. Everything looks fairly normal, in fact, with about 70% of the changes being drivers, 10% architecture updates, and the remaining 20% are spread out." There are a number of new user-facing features (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-43-features&num=1) including stabilized Intel "Skylake" processor support, initial AMD R9 Fury graphics support, SMP scheduler optimizations, file-system fixes, a reworked open-source NVIDIA driver, and many Linux hardware driver updates.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/09/13/1521216/linux-43-bringing-stable-intel-skylake-support-reworked-nvidia-driver
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/09/13/1521216/linux-43-bringing-stable-intel-skylake-support-reworked-nvidia-driver