14 DAY TRIAL // Linux kernel 3.14.40 LTS arrived a few days ago, as announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman on the kernel mailinglist, and it brings a number of important improvements to the ARM and PowerPC architectures, as well as several updated drivers.
According to the attached shortlog, Linux kernel 3.14.40, which is an LTS (Long Term Support) release, brings improvements to many hardware architectures, including ARM, Alpha, AVR32, FRV, CRIS, IA64, M32R, m68k, MicroBlaze, MIPS, mn10300, OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, s390, SPARC, Xtensa, Tile, METAG, and x86.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.14.40 kernel. All users of the 3.14 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 3.14.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."
Linux kernel 3.14.40 LTS updates Ethernet drivers and many file systems
Linux kernel 3.14.40 LTS also updates various Ethernet drivers, for Broadcom, Intel, Mellanox, Freescale, Emulex, and Realtek hardware manufacturers. Some Acer Bluetooth drivers have been updated as well, along with some networking fixes for both the IPv4 and IPv6 network protocols.
Several file systems received important updates in Linux kernel 3.14.40 LTS. Among these, we can mention Amiga Fast File System (AFFS), autofs4, Ceph, CIFS, Coda (Constant Data Availability), Debugfs, Exportfs, ncpfs, OCFS2, and NFS. Of course, many other internal components of the Linux kernel have been improved in this release.
Download Linux kernel 3.14.40 LTS right now from Softpedia. All users who use the Linux 3.14 series are urged to upgrade as soon as the new 3.14.40 packages arrive in the official software repositories of their GNU/Linux operating systems. You can also download Linux kernel 3.14.40 LTS from the kernel.org website and compile it yourself.