14 DAY TRIAL // Well, that was fast. Only a week after the launch of the Linux 4.13 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the first point release, which marks the branch as "stable" on the kernel.org website, and ready for production use, of course.
That's right, Linux kernel 4.13.1 is out, and it's the latest stable kernel available for GNU/Linux distributions that want to offer their users the best hardware support on the market. It looks like Arch Linux already has the Linux 4.13.1 kernel in its Testing repos, so you can give it a try, but we strongly recommend that you wait until it lands in the main repositories before upgrading your kernel.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.13.1 kernel. All users of the 4.13 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.13.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.13.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.
Coming soon to a GNU/Linux distro near you
The chances are that Linux kernel 4.13 will be coming soon to a GNU/Linux distro near you, but we know for a fact that Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system will launch next month on October 19 powered by the Linux 4.13 kernel. Until then, you can compile it on your favorite distro if you download the source tarball from kernel.org or via our website.
As for what's new since in the Linux kernel 4.13.1 maintenance update, we can mention a bunch of updates to various wireless drivers, including Atheros' ath10k, Intel's iwlwifi, Marvell's mwifiex, and Realtek's rtl8188ee, rtl8192ce/cu/de/ee/se, rtl8723ae/be, and rtl8821ae, along with miscellaneous improvements to various crypto, USB, ATA, Android, Bluetooth, iiO, SCSI, and GPU drivers.