We already have a new version of the Linux Kernel, version 4.4 LTS. This version brings important news such as adding a lot of drivers and also improvements in startup and in protocols such as TCP among others
After a few months of development with a lot of beta and release candidate versions, version 4.4 of the Linux Kernel has finally been released, which has the added benefit of being LTS, meaning it has longer support than normal, coming out two months after Kernel 4.3.
This kernel, which will be included in the future in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the next version of Arch Linux, among others, includes a lot of new features that we will see below.
What's new in Linux kernel 4.4 LTS
- Added 3D acceleration for virtual hosts.
- Improved system boot system.
- Added Open-Channel SSD support to be done through LightNVM.
- Improved RAID5 support.
- Various improvements in file storage.
- Improvement in the TCP protocol.
- Added support for a bunch of drivers.
- Optimized RAM memory consumption.
- Correction of errors and various bugs.
- Other improvements, if you know English you can see all the details here.
As you've already seen, this new version of the Linux kernel has a large number of new features. This is to be expected, since, as with systems like Ubuntu, Long Term Support (LTS) versions typically include more new features than regular releases.
Actually, most of the changes have been included in the Beta and Release Candidate versions that have been released in recent months. In Linus Torvalds' words, the changes from the last release candidate (version 8) to the final version haven't been significant, so if you were testing the candidate versions, you won't notice much difference.
This version of the kernel is now available , as usual , on the kernel.org website , and other previous versions are also available.