Linus Torvalds announced a few moments ago the release of the next long-term supported (LTS) kernel series, Linux kernel 4.14, which introduces several new features and improvements.
Linux kernel 4.14 LTS has been in development since mid-September, during which is received a total of eight RCs (Release Candidates) that introduced features like support for AMD Secure Memory Encryption, Heterogeneous Memory Management to support upcoming GPUs, and improved cpufreq behavior.
One of the major new features of the Linux kernel 4.14 LTS, however, is the implementation of bigger memory limits in x86 hardware, which bumps the limits to 128PiB of virtual address space and 4PiB of physical address space. This release also introduces a new ORC unwinder to improve the kernel traces and the size of the kernel.
Other than that, Linux kernel 4.14 LTS introduces zstd compression for both Btrfs and SquashFS file systems, the ability to zero-copy data from user memory to sockets, i… (read more)
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