14 DAY TRIAL // Ben Hutchings, the maintainer of the Linux 3.2 kernel branch, has announced today the immediate availability for download and upgrade of a new maintenance release for one of the oldest LTS (Long Term Support) kernels.
According to the release notes, Linux kernel 3.2.69 LTS is here to address issues with the ARM, x86, s390, and PowerPC (PPC) hardware architectures, the eCryptfs, HFS+, FUSE, JFFS2, JFS, NFS, NILFS2, OCFS2, and XFS file systems, as well as to fix multiple networking problems, especially with the IPv6 and IPv4 network protocols.
Additionally, various drivers have been updated in Linux kernel 3.2.69 LTS, for Xen, USB, TTY, PCI, ACPI, SPI, SCSI, MD, InfiniBand, Bluetooth, Ethernet, GPIO, Radeon, and CPUFreq. Also, several other networking (Netfilter and mac80211) and sound issues have been resolved.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.2.69 kernel. All users of the 3.2 kernel series should upgrade," says Ben Hutchings. "The updated 3.2.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."
All users of the 3.2 kernel series must upgrade as soon as possible
As expected, Ben Hutchings advises all users of the 3.2 kernel branch to update their Linux kernel packages as soon as possible. You can either download the Linux kernel 3.2.69 LTS sources right now from the kernel.org website or via Softpedia and start compiling it yourselves or wait for your distribution vendor to update the kernel.
If you have zero knowledge as far as compiling Linux kernels is concerned, we strongly recommend that you wait until the latest 3.2.69 version arrives on the main software repositories of your GNU/Linux operating system. We recommend reading the complete changelog for Linux kernel 3.2.69 LTS if you're curios to learn about the new changes it brings.