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Linux Kernel 4.11.2 Has Many F2FS and CIFS Improvements, Lots of Updated Drivers

All users of the Linux 4.11 kernel series urged to update

May 21, 2017 22:53 GMT  ·  By
Linux kernel 4.11.2 released
   Linux kernel 4.11.2 released

Greg Kroah-Hartman was proud to announce the release of the second maintenance update to the Linux 4.11 kernel series, Linux 4.11.2, which is now considered the latest stable kernel that's available for GNU/Linux distributions.

Linux kernel 4.11.2 is here only one week after the first point release in the new stable series, and it's a major update changing a total of 131 files, with 1402 insertions and 766 deletions, according to the appended shortlog. Greg Kroah-Hartman also released new maintenance updates for the Linux 4.10, 4.9, 4.4, and 3.18 kernel series, for which we have a separate article on the website.

"I'm announcing the release of the 4.11.2 kernel. All users of the 4.11 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.11.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.11.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.

F2FS, CIFS, EXT4, and x86 improvements, updated drivers

Linux kernel 4.11.2 adds various improvements to Samsung's F2FS file system, along with some small bug fixes to CIFS, EXT4, Ceph, crypto, JBD2, OrangeFS, OverlayFS, pstore, xattr, IOMap, and DAX. It also adds a bunch of enhancements to the x86, ARM64 (AArch64), ARM, and PowerPC (PPC) hardware architectures, and ships with the usual core kernel, tools and mm changes, as well as an updated networking stack with better Bluetooth support.

Lots of drivers have been updated in the Linux 4.11.2 kernel, including those for InfiniBand (Marvell MLX4, Intel HFI1, IPoIB), crypto, Bluetooth (Broadcom and Intel), ATA, DAX, MD, Non-Volatile Dual In-line Memory Module (NVDIMM), staging (gdm724x, vt6656, wilc1000), iSCSI, TTY (amba-pl011, omap-serial, Samsung), VFIO, and USB devices. If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.11 series, you need to update to Linux kernel 4.11.2 right now.

The Linux kernel 4.11.2 source archive is available for download from kernel.org.