14 DAY TRIAL // The latest version of the stable Linux kernel, 3.14.3, has been announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman, and this time a large number of changes and commits have been implemented.
After a couple of versions that seemed to be a little small for the most advanced Linux kernel available right now, the current release appears to be somewhat bolder and features more changes and improvements, mostly for drivers.
Unlike the previous releases, Linux kernel 3.14.3 has gathered more drivers and a host of Arch improvements, not to mention other various fixes.
“I'm announcing the release of the 3.14.3 kernel. All users of the 3.14 kernel series must upgrade.”
“The updated 3.14.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.14.y and 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,” Greg Kroah-Hartman said in the email announcement.
According to the changelog, IDs have been added for the Hewlett-Packard HP POS pole displays, a crash that occurred during the hotplug of a PCI USB controller card has been fixed, client writing state is now ignored during cb completion, the default CPU selection for ARCH_MULTI_V5 has been fixed, a PCTV 290e LNA problem has been corrected, the read integration time function (iio) has been fixed, the default regulator init_data has been corrected (arizona-ldo1), the ucontrol path has been optimized (KVM), and the error handling of qla2x00_mem_alloc() has been fixed.
Also, the compilation warning provided when !CONFIG_PCI && !CONFIG_PM has been fixed, the Intel Lynx Point ports are now switched to EHCI on shutdown, a potential buffer overrun in the sending diag packet routine has been fixed, headset microphone detection quirks have been added for three Dell laptops, support for the ALC288 codec has been added, boundary checks in the PCM pointer ops have been fixed, and the beep for ASUS 1015E has been enabled.
If you are using any of the versions released until now in the Linux kernel 3.13.x branch, you should consider an update to this build, as that particular branch is now End of Life. It's also possible to use the latest Linux kernel 3.15 RC, if you really feel adventurous.
Linux kernel 3.14 features, among other things, better Intel Broadwell graphics support, various Radeon improvements, Nouveau improvements (support for new GPUs from NVIDIA), quite a few Btrfs changes, and even NVIDIA Tegra PRIME support.
A complete list of commits in this branch of the kernel can be found in the official announcement. You can download Linux kernel 3.14.3 right now from Softpedia.