All users of the Linux 3.2 kernel series must upgrade

Aug 7, 2015 04:47 GMT  ·  By

On August 6, Ben Hutchings announced the release and immediate availability for download of the seventieth maintenance release of the long-term supported Linux 3.2 kernel.

According to the attached diff from Linux kernel 3.2.69 LTS, the new maintenance release of Linux 3.2 LTS adds numerous improvements to the MIPS, x86, PowerPC (PPC), PA-RISC, s390, and SPARC architectures, addresses various issues with the Btrfs, EXT4, NFS, jbd2, NILFS2, OMFS, and OCFS2 file systems, and introduces multiple sound and networking patches, especially for things like Netfilter, IPv4, IPv6, mac80211, and SCTP.

Furthermore, Linux kernel 3.2.70 LTS bring with it dozens of updated drivers, especially for things like ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), ATA, Bluetooth, EDAC, general-purpose input/output (GPIO), InfiniBand, MD, Memory Stick, MTD, networking (mostly Wireless), SCSI, Staging, TTY, USB, and Xen.

"I'm announcing the release of the 3.2.70 kernel. All users of the 3.2 kernel series should upgrade," says Ben Hutchings. "The updated 3.2.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.2.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."

All users of the Linux 3.2 kernel branch must upgrade

As expected, users of the Linux 3.2 LTS kernel branch are urged to update to the Linux kernel 3.2.70 release as soon as possible, or more precisely, as soon as the updated packages arrive in the default channels of your GNU/Linux distribution. However, you can also manually install the update by downloading Linux kernel 3.2.70 LTS right now from either Softpedia or the kernel.org website.