14 DAY TRIAL // On June 16, Jiri Slaby informed us about the immediate availability for download of the forty-fourth maintenance release of the Linux 3.12 kernel, a long-term supported (LTS) branch.
Looking at the changelog attached to the announcement published on Linux kernel's mailing list, we can notice that Linux Kernel 3.12.44 LTS is an important release that updates many drivers, especially for ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), ATA, EDAC, general-purpose input/output (GPIO), GPU, HID, hwmon, IOMMU, ISDN, MD, MMC, NFC, Wireless, SCSI, Staging, Xen, USB, TTY, and Thermal.
Additionally, it fixes various issues with the ARM, m68k, MIPS, PowerPC (PPC), s390, and x86 hardware architectures, addresses a couple of crypto issues, updates the Common Internet File System (CIFS), EXT4, jbd2, and OMFS file systems, repairs various networking (IPv4 and IPv6) problems, and improves some of the built-in sound drivers.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.12.44 kernel. All users of the 3.12 kernel series must upgrade," says Jiri Slaby, maintainer of the 3.12 kernel branch. "The updated 3.12.y git tree can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary."
All users of the 3.12 kernel series must update as soon as possible
As expected, Jiri Slaby urges all users of the 3.12 kernel series to update to the 3.12.44 release as soon as possible, or as soon as the updated kernel arrives in the default software repositories of their GNU/Linux operating systems.
Distribution vendors and advanced users can download the sources of Linux kernel 3.12.44 LTS right now via Softpedia or directly from the kernel.org website and compile it themselves.