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 last week ended up getting a few more fixes than expected, but nothing in there feels all that odd or out of line." Some of the more significant changes in this release are: post-init read-only memory as a bare beginning 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 4.6 page for an amazing amount of detail.

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