All users of the Linux 3.15 kernel series are urged to upgrade

Jul 10, 2014 07:41 GMT  ·  By

The fifth maintenance release of the current stable Linux kernel package, version 3.15, was announced last evening, July 9, by none other than Greg Kroah-Hartman. The release introduces numerous improvements and bug fixes.

Looking through the changelog, we can notice that Linux kernel 3.15.5 introduces a plethora of updated drivers, especially for Intel i915, AMD Radeon and Nvidia video cards, Bluetooth improvements, sound fixes, wireless tweaks, Btrfs and EXT4 enhancements, as well as ARM and ARM64 updates.

The release also includes updated TTY Serial, USB, SCSI, and Wireless drivers and improvements to the CIFS and NFS filesystems. In addition, it features fixes for the x86 and ia64 architectures.

“I'm announcing the release of the 3.15.5 kernel. All users of the 3.15 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.15.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.15.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 official release announcement for Linux kernel 3.15.5.

As usual, all users of Linux 3.15 kernel are urged to update their current kernel packages to the brand new Linux kernel 3.15.5 release as soon as it’s available on the default software repositories of their Linux distributions. In the meantime, you can download Linux kernel 3.15.5 right now from Softpedia.