14 DAY TRIAL // Coming only three days after the release of Linux kernel 4.10.2, the third maintenance update to the Linux 4.10 kernel series was announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman a few moments ago.
That's right, we're talking about Linux kernel 4.10.3, which already landed in the Testing repository of Arch Linux. According to the appended shortlog, the update appears to be quite big and changes a total of 94 files, with 1076 insertions and 712 deletions. We can't even imagine how much work was queued for the Linux 4.10 branch if the maintainers had to split them into two patches released about 72 hours from one another.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.10.3 kernel. All users of the 4.10 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.10.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.10.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," said Greg Kroah-Hartman.
There are mostly updated drivers
In Linux kernel 4.10.3, we can notice that there are mostly updated drivers, specifically for various graphics drivers like AMDGPU, Intel i915, Radeon, vmwgfx, etc. But there are also updates for the InfiniBand, NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module), PHY, PWM, s390, TTY, Broadcom (brcm80211) wireless, Marvell mvpp2 Ethernet, HV, Bluetooth, and ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface).
The rest of the patch is split between architecture improvements for s390, x86, and Xtensa, various bug fixes for the Andrew File System (AFS), autofs4, Btrfs, Ceph, CIFS, debugfs, FAT, NFS, and OrangeFS file systems, updates to the mac80211 wireless subsystem, as well as the usual mm and core kernel changes. We recommend checking out the mailing list announcement for all technical details.
In the meantime, if you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.10 kernel series, we recommend that you update your systems to Linux kernel 4.10.3 as soon as possible, or as soon as it lands in the stable repositories. OS vendors are urged to download the Linux kernel 4.10.3 source tarball from kernel.org or via our website, compile and tweak it for their supported architectures, and release it to their users.