On 2 July,
Linus Torvalds released the
kernel 4.12, and it is available for download on
kernel.org.
Linux 4.12 provides support for USB Type C in the form of a port management - that provides the correct power consumption.
Some significant changes are once again from the AMD-GPU driver.
About Data Integrity Protection, the device mapper driver receives an extension called
dm_integrity to check the integrity of encrypted data on block devices and to protect it in the long term.
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here.