14 DAY TRIAL // Today, September 5, 2016, a new version of the long-term supported Linux 3.18 kernel series arrived as build 3.18.41, bringing various updated drivers and other small improvements.
No official announcement has been made at the moment of writing this article, but we've managed to get our hands on the Git changelog to tell you a little bit about the changes implemented in the Linux 3.18.41 LTS release, which updates a total of 47 files, with 254 insertions and 91 deletions.
Judging by the statistics mentioned above, Linux kernel 3.18.41 LTS is a relatively small maintenance update that brings multiple improvements to the ARC hardware architectures, as well as a few minor fixes to the PA-RISC and PowerPC (PPC) ones, a bugfix for the UBIFS file system, and an updated networking stack with IPv4 and mac80211 changes.
Updated GPU drivers, several internal improvements
Linux kernel 3.18.41 LTS also contains multiple updated drivers, in particular for general-purpose input/output (GPIO), Intel i915, AMD Radeon, SCSI, MD, PCI, s390, Xen, USB, and networking (mostly Ethernet) devices, as well as various internal improvements and security patches.
If you're using a GNU/Linux operating system powered by a kernel from the Linux 3.18 LTS kernel series, you are urged to update as soon as possible to Linux kernel 3.18.41 LTS. OS vendors and power users can download the Linux kernel 3.18.41 LTS sources right now via our website or directly from kernel.org and compile it themselves.
In related news, the Linux 4.1.32 LTS kernel has been released as well, and we invite you to check out the changes implemented in it on our report. In the meantime, please consider keeping your Linux kernel-based operating system up to date with the latest kernel builds and software versions if you want to stay secure at all times.