Guest post by Linux 4.19 has been released. This release adds support for the CAKE network queue management to fight bufferbloat, support for guaranteeing minimum I/O latency targets for cgroups, experimental support for the future Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax-drafts), memory usage for overlayfs users has been improved, a experimental EROFS file system optimized for read-only use, a new asynchronous I/O polling interface, support for avoiding unintentional writes to an attacker-controlled FIFO or regular files in world writable sticky directories, support for a Intel feature that locks part of the CPU cache for an application, and many other improvements and new drivers. For more details, see the complete changelog.
It looks like anyone using the latest (beta) Nvidia closed source graphics driver ( 396.54.09 available at
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver ) will have to a wait a bit to run kernel 4.19.0, because it doesn’t work with it yet.
You’ll have to stick with 4.18.16 until Nvidia update their driver with 4.19 support.
Edited 2018-10-23 06:23 UTC
No, it works fine, NVIDIA just doesn’t support it yet. I’m typing this on a laptop running a mostly unmodified 4.19 kernel (sources on the default branch here: https://github.com/Ferroin/linux) and the 410.66 NVIDIA drivers. The GPU is working just the same as it did with the same NVIDIA driver version on 4.18.
What you call the “Complete Changelog” is the semi-official summary of major changes. The complete changelog is the git log.