14 DAY TRIAL // Today, October 19, 2016, Linux kernel maintainer Jiri Slaby announced the release and immediate availability for download of the sixty-fifth maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 3.12 kernel series.
It's been only two weeks since the release of the Linux 3.12.64 LTS kernel maintenance version, and today's Linux kernel 3.12.65 LTS update attempts to add various improvements, updated drivers, as well as patch some of the bugs reported by users. According to the appended shortlog and diff from Linux kernel 3.12.64 LTS, a total of 80 files were changed, with 516 insertions and 283 deletions in Linux kernel 3.12.65 LTS.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.12.65 kernel. All users of the 3.12 kernel series must upgrade," said Jiri Slaby. "The updated 3.12.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.12.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."
Here's what has changed in Linux kernel 3.12.65 LTS
A summary of the changes implemented in the Linux 3.12.65 LTS kernel release includes improvements to the PowerPC (PPC), ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), AVR32, CRIS, MIPS, TILE, and x86 hardware architectures, as well as for the Btrfs, HostFS, NFS, OCFS2, ReiserFS, and XFS filesystems. There are also a bunch of updated drivers, in particular for InfiniBand, Wireless (brcm80211), IOMMU, MTD, I2C, Radeon, ACPI, hwmon, MFD, and USB devices.
Last but not least, there are some minor enhancements to the sound and networking stacks. We recommend checking out the appended shortlog (link above) for all the technical details on the new changes. In the meantime, if you're using a GNU/Linux operating system powered by a kernel from the Linux 3.12 LTS series, you are urged to update to Linux kernel 3.12.65 LTS as soon as possible. OS vendors can download the Linux kernel 3.12.65 LTS sources right now from kernel.org or via our website.