All users of the Linux 4.1 kernel branch must update

Jul 12, 2015 14:50 GMT  ·  By

The Linux kernel 4.1.2 maintenance release was announced by its maintainer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a couple of days ago and brings updated drivers, security patches in various areas, as well as bug fixes and improvements.

Looking at the appended shortlog of the official announcement, we can notice that Linux kernel 4.1.2, which is an LTS (Long Term Support) release maintained for a couple of years by Greg Kroah-Hartman, brings dozens of improvements to the ARM architecture.

Additionally, there are also some enhancements for the s390 and x86 architectures, several updated drivers, especially for things like CPUFreq, CPUIdle, IOMMU, MMC, USB, KVM, and Ethernet (mostly for Mellanox hardware), changes to the Unix File System (UFS), various networking fixes (mostly for IPv4), and some security improvements.

"I'm announcing the release of the 4.1.2 kernel. All users of the 4.1 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 4.1.y git tree can 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, all users of the Linux 4.1 LTS kernel series must upgrade as soon as possible to the 4.1.2 maintenance release, as Greg Kroah-Hartman urged them in the release announcement published on June 10, 2015 on the Linux kernel mailing list. To update, use the built-in package manager utility of your operating system.

Linux distribution vendors must download the Linux kernel 4.1.2 LTS sources via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website by clicking on the links above. Advanced users who know how to compile a kernel can also download the tarball of Linux 4.1.2 kernel to update their installations manually if they don't want to wait for the official packages to arrive on the default software repositories of their distros.