All users of the Linux 3.9 kernel series must upgrade!

May 8, 2013 04:54 GMT  ·  By

A few minutes ago, Greg Kroah-Hartman proudly announced that the first maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.9 kernel series is now available for download.

Linux kernel 3.9.1 is here to fix lots of Arch issues, including ARM, IA64, PowerPC and x86. Moreover, drivers for ACPI, ATA, MD, MMC, PCI, RTC, Ethernet and Wireless have been updated in this first maintenance of Linux kernel 3.9. It also contains some filesystem improvements, including EX4, jbd2 and NFS.

"I'm announcing the release of the 3.9.1 kernel. All users of the 3.9 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.9.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.

All users of the 3.9.x branch are urged to upgrade their systems to Linux kernel 3.9.1 as soon as possible. Linux kernels 3.0.77, 3.4.47 and 3.8.12 were also released today.

Download Linux kernel 3.9.1 right now from Softpedia.