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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.8
Linus Torvalds announced a new version of the Linux kernel with many notable new features. The two most interesting features of the Linux 4.8 release are support for Microsoft's Surface 3 touchscreen and the Raspberry Pi 3's SoC (system on chip).
Ubuntu 16.10, which is slated to be release in October, will be the first major desktop Linux distribution to use the 4.8 kernel.
However, not everything went as smoothly as expected. Torvalds noticed a nasty bug that slipped into the final release. He wrote on the mailing list: "I'm really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew [Morton] just before doing the 4.8 release, because they cause problems, and now it is in 4.8 (and that buggy crap is marked for stable too). In particular, I just got this "Kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swap.h:276" and the end result was a dead kernel."
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