14 DAY TRIAL // After yesterday's announcement of Linux kernel 3.12.43 LTS, which got numerous changes, including a patch for the famous EXT4 data corruption issue that plagued almost all Linux kernel branches, today we can report that Linux kernel 3.18.14 LTS is out and it also includes a patch for the respective EXT4 bug.
According to the release notes, Linux kernel 3.18.14 LTS is here to improve support for the ARM, ARM64, IA64, MIPS, Metag, PowerPC, s390, Sparc, Xtensa, and x86 architectures, as well as for the Btrfs, EXT4, HFS+, and NFS file systems. In addition, there are also updates for many core components, including ACPI, KVM, Brain Fuck Scheduler (BFS), sound, and networking (IPv4).
Numerous drivers have been updated as well in the Linux kernel 3.18.14 LTS release, including Intel e1000 Ethernet, Mellanox Ethernet, RealTek Wireless (rtl8192cu and rtl8192ee), and many other Bluetooth, USB, TTY, SCSI, MTD, MMC, SPI, InfiniBand, CLK, I2C, ACPI, and GPU (Radeon and Intel i915) devices.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.18.14 kernel. All users of the 3.18 kernel series must upgrade," says Sasha Levin. "The updated 3.18.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 3.18.14 is now the most advanced LTS release
At the moment of writing this article, Linux kernel 3.18.14 can be declared the most advanced and stable LTS (Long Term Support) release. All users of the 3.18 kernel series must upgrade as soon as the packages become live in the main software repositories of their GNU/Linux operating systems.
Distribution vendors and experienced users who want to update their Linux 3.18 kernel packages can download Linux kernel 3.18.14 LTS right now via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website. If you don't know how to compile a kernel, we suggest you wait the new version to arrive in your Linux distribution.