14 DAY TRIAL // It's still June 22 in America, so Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate availability for download of three new maintenance releases of the Linux 4.0, 3.14, and 3.10 kernel series.
Looking at the appended shortlog, Linux Kernel 3.10.81 LTS is a small release that brings mostly updated drivers, especially for things like iiO, DRM (Intel i915), ATA, input, networking, staging, and USB. It also patches a couple of issues with the Btrfs file system, especially related to incorrect handling for the return of fiemap_fill_next_extent.
It also repairs various networking problems related to the IPv4 and IPv4 protocols, adds a fix for an issue with the mic volume for Logitech Quickcam Fusion, fixes parsing of MLDv2 reports, adds a patch for another Acer Aspire 9420 issue with the Realtek HDA driver, and introduces support for the Motion Tracker development board.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.10.81 kernel. All users of the 3.10 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 3.10.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."
All users of the 3.10 kernel branch must update as soon as possible
Linux kernel 3.10.81 LTS also fixes DDC probe issues for passive adapters in the Intel i915 video driver, updates Xen's netback to read the hotplug script once at the beginning of a day, adds support for control names to the MAYA44 USB+ mixer in the ALSA driver, and patches a bug in the ext_dev_lock lockdep report.
As expected, all users of the Linux 3.10 kernel branch must update to Linux kernel 3.10.81 as soon as the new version arrives in the main software repositories of their distribution. The rest of the world can download Linux kernel 3.10.81 LTS right now from the kernel.org website or via Softpedia.