Linux 4.19 (Next Release) Developments
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Big CIFS/SMB3 Improvements Head To Linux 4.19
Linus Torvalds has merged a rather significant set of patches for improving the CIFS/SMB3 support in the mainline kernel.
The SMB3/CIFS advanced network file-system support provides the VFS module supporting the SMB3 family of NAS protocols for dealing with Samba/Azure/etc. With Linux 4.19 a lot of new feature code has been merged.
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New Sound Hardware Support & Other Improvements Playing In Linux 4.19
SUSE's Takashi Iwai sent in the pull request this morning of the sound subsystem updates for the Linux 4.19 kernel and it includes a lot of new hardware support and other improvements for Linux's audio capabilities.
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A Lot Of Spectre Changes Land In The Linux 4.19 Git Tree, Possible Performance Impact
"The Speck [Spectre slang, not to be confused with the controversial NSA algo] brigade sadly provides yet another large set of patches destroying the perfomance which we carefully built and preserved," began the latest x86/pti pull request by kernel maintainer Thomas Gleixner.
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