In upstream development news, the kernel team here at Red Hat has been working on a dynamic kernel patching project called kpatch for several months. At long last, the project has reached a point where we feel it's ready for a wider audience and are very excited to announce that we've released the kpatch code under GPLv2. kpatch allows you to patch a Linux kernel without rebooting or restarting
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