14 DAY TRIAL // Today, August 3, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release and immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance release of the stable, long-term supported Linux 4.1 kernel.
According to the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 4.1.4 LTS is here to update numerous drivers, especially for things like ACPI, ATA, Bluetooth, Bus, CLK, DMA, EDAC, DRM (mostly Radeon and Intel i915), I2C, hwmon, iiO, MD, MMC, networking (Ethernet and Wireless), NFC, PHY, PINCTRL, PNP, RTC, Staging, TTY, and USB.
Additionally, it fixes many issues with the ARM, ARM64, m68k, OpenRISC, and x86 hardware architectures, adds many improvements to the EXT4, Btrfs, FUSE, HPFS, jbd2, NFS, OverlayFS, and XFS file systems, and improves networking, security, sound, and many other core components.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.1.4 kernel. All users of the 4.1 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman."The updated 4.1.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 Linux 4.1 LTS kernel series must upgrade
As expected, Greg Kroah-Hartman urges all users of the Linux 4.1 LTS kernel branch to update their installations as soon as the 4.1.4 version arrives in the main software repositories of their GNU/Linux distributions. You can also update manually by downloading Linux kernel 4.1.4 LTS via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website.
A manual upgrade of a Linux kernel is recommended for advanced users who know what they're doing, as well as to distribution vendors, who are also urged to download, compile, optimize, and push the updated kernel 4.1.4 version to the default software repos of their Linux kernel-based operating systems.