14 DAY TRIAL // The Fedora Project has announced today, April 16, that the recently released Linux kernel 4.0 has been included in the default software repositories of the Fedora 22 Alpha computer operating systems.
The Linux 4.0 kernel has been announced by Linus Torvalds earlier this week, a major release that includes the new kernel patching infrastructure. Distribution vendors are already preparing to include it in their Linux kernel-based operating systems.
Fedora Linux is one of the first distributions to include Linux kernel 4.0 and to offer live patching to their users. While the Beta version of Fedora 22 will be released next Tuesday, on April 21, users of Fedora 22 Alpha can update to Linux kernel 4.0 today.
"Early this week, Linus released version 4.0 of the Linux Kernel. Now, this updated version of the Linux Kernel is available in the official Fedora repositories for users running the alpha release of Fedora 22," reads the announcement.
Therefore, if you're running Fedora 22 Alpha, you can get the new Linux kernel 4.0 on your machine by either updating the installation via the graphical package manager application (Software in Fedora Workstation), or by running the dnf update in a terminal window.
Update: According to Josh Boyer, the Fedora kernel team leader, there are no plans to enable live patching in Fedora 22's Linux kernel 4.0 packages.