14 DAY TRIAL // Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, July 6, that a new maintenance release for the Long Term Support 3.4.97 branch of the Linux kernel is available for download, urging users to upgrade to it as soon as possible.
According to the official changelog, Linux Kernel 3.4.97 is a small release that introduces PowerPC and x86 improvements, updates several drivers, and fixes the NFS (Network File System) and UBIFS (Unsorted Block Image File System) filesystems, as well as a few minor issues that were discovered in the previous release.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.4.97 kernel. All users of the 3.4 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.4.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 3.4.97.
All users are urged to upgrade to this brand new maintenance release of Linux kernel 3.4 as soon as the packages are included in the default software repositories of their Linux distributions.
The Long Term Support Linux kernels 3.10.47 and 3.14.11, along with the latest stable 3.15.4 kernel, were also released yesterday. Download Linux kernel 3.4.97 LTS right now from Softpedia.