14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier today, October 1, renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of two new kernel versions, Linux kernel 3.10.90 LTS and Linux kernel 3.14.54 LTS.
The fifty-fourth maintenance release of the Linux 3.14 LTS kernel series is here with dozens of new features and bug fixes, among which we can mention various enhancements to the ARM64, PowerPC (PPC), x86, and PA-RISC hardware architectures, along with improvements for the Btrfs, CIFS, HFS, HFS+, NFS, and UDF filesystems.
There are also a number of networking enhancements, in particular for the IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, as well as for things like Open vSwitch, NetLink, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol), Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC), Radio Data System (RDS), and mac80211.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.14.54 kernel. All users of the 3.14 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 3.14.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.14.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."
Several drivers have been updated
As usual, there's no maintenance release of a Linux kernel branch without driver updates. Therefore, Linux kernel 3.14.54 LTS updates networking (mostly Ethernet), InfiniBand, iiO, ISDN, MD, MMC, Xen, and GPU (mostly Radeon) drivers. A few sound fixes have been implemented as well in this release. In numbers, Linux kernel 3.14.54 LTS changes 89 files with 1006 insertions and 532 deletions.
All users of the long-term supported Linux 3.14 kernel series are urged to update to the Linux kernel 3.14.54 LTS release as soon as possible, or more precisely as soon as the new version arrives in the default software repositories of their GNU/Linux operating systems. You can also download the Linux kernel 3.14.54 LTS sources from the kernel.org website or via Softpedia.