Linux_4.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies

Linux 4.16 has been released. While this report is finished, you can read about it here:

LWN's merge window part 1, part 2
Phoronix 4.16 feature overview

or you can take a look at pull requests:

Pull init_task initializer cleanups
Pull sound updates
Pull power management updates
Pull ACPI updates
Pull PNP updates
Pull MFD updates
Pull backlight updates
Pull MTD updates
Pull hwmon updates
Pull MMC updates
Pull spi updates
Pull regulator updates
Pull regmap updates
Pull EDAC updates
Pull block updates
Pull UBI/UBIFS updates
Pull inode->i_version rework
Pull cifs updates
Pull btrfs updates
Pull m68k updates
Pull Xtensa updates
Pull irq updates
Pull timer updates
Pull x86/cache updates
Pull x86 platform updates
Pull x86 timer updates
Pull x86 mm update
Pull x86/pti updates
Pull STRICT_DEVMEM default
Pull RCU updates
Pull EFI updates
Pull locking updates
Pull perf updates
Pull x86 RAS updates
Pull scheduler updates
Pull x86 hyperv update
Pull arm64 updates
Pull siginfo cleanups
Pull userns updates
Pull workqueue updates
Pull libata updates
Pull cgroup updates
Pull poll annotations
Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups
Pull kern_recvmsg reduction
Pull NFS client updates
Pull f2fs updates
Pull GFS2 updates
Pull misc vfs updates
Pull get_user_pages_fast updates
Pull xfs updates
Pull MD updates
Pull device mapper updates
Pull SCSI updates
Pull dma mapping updates
Pull dmaengine updates
Pull RDMA subsystem updates
Pull LED updates
Pull GPIO updates
Pull power supply and reset updates
Pull IPMI updates
Pull HID updates
Pull livepatching updates
Pull integrity updates
Pull smack updates
Pull tpm updates
Pull seccomp updates
Pull selinux updates
Pull crypto updates
Pull networking updates
Merge updates from akpm
Pull dcache updates
Pull asm/uaccess.h whack-a-mole
Pull vmci iov_iter updates
Pull documentation updates
Pull s390 updates
Pull sparc updates
Pull USB/PHY updates
Pull tty/staging driver updates
Pull staging/IIO updates
Pull driver core updates
Pull char/misc driver updates
Pull input layer updates
Pull DeviceTree updates
Pull Kbuild updates
Pull Kbuild misc updates
Pull Kconfig updates
Merge KASAN word-at-a-time fixups
Pull tracing updates
Pull VFIO updates
Pull printk updates
Pull ARM SoC device tree updates
Pull ARM SoC platform updates
Pull ARM SoC driver updates
Pull clk updates
Pull drm updates
Pull microblaze updates
Pull ARM updates
Pull powerpc updates
Pull alpha updates
Pull RTC updates
Pull pin control updates
Pull firewire updates
Pull kselftest updates
Pull second set of SCSI updates
Pull ext4 updates
Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting
Pull fscrypt updates
Pull i2c updates
Pull mailbox updates
Pull NTB updates
Pull spectre/meltdown updates
Pull pwm updates
Pull rpmsg updates
Pull remoteproc updates
Pull overlayfs updates
Pull more xfs updates
Pull PCI updates
Pull libnvdimm updates
Pull more rdma updates
Pull media updates
Pull thermal management updates
Pull x86 platform-driver updates
Pull scheduler updates
Merge misc updates from akpm
Pull more documentation updates
Pull MIPS updates
Pull RISC-V updates
Pull watchdog updates
Pull more ASoC updates
Pull more x86 platform-drivers updates
Pull fbdev updates
Pull virtio/vhost updates
Pull more arm64 updates
Pull ceph updates
Pull more drm updates
Pull IOMMU updates
Pull afs updates
Pull orangefs updates
Pull gcc plugins updates
Pull idr updates
Pull nfsd update
Pull more power management updates
Pull more ACPI updates
Pull s390 updates
Pull SCSI target updates
Pull more NFS client updates
Pull more Kbuild updates
Pull KVM updates
Pull chrome platform updates
Pull x86 platform driver updates
Pull nios2 update
Pull more poll annotation updates