14 DAY TRIAL // After announcing the release of Linux kernel 3.14.77 LTS and Linux kernel 4.7.2, Greg Kroah-Hartman informed the community about the availability of Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS.
Linux kernel 4.4 is a long-term supported (LTS) branch, which is currently used by some of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and it will receive maintenance updates for a few more years than normal kernel series that aren't marked as "long-term" on the kernel.org website. According to the appended shortlog, Linux Kernel 4.4.19 LTS is a major release that changes a total of 146 files , with 1709 insertions and 875 deletions.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.19 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman in the release announcement. "The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.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."
Here's what's new in Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS
New features in Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS include improvements to the AMDGPU graphics driver for AMD Radeon GPUs, many AArch64 (ARM64), ARM, MIPS, and x86 architecture updates, various fixes for the CIFS, Btrfs, JBD2, and NFS filesystems, and lots of updated drivers, this time for Bluetooth, InfiniBand, CPUFreq, EDAC, GPIO, I2C, IOMMU, MD, MTD, PCI, PINCTRL, RTC, SCSI, SPI, TTY, USB, and Virtio devices.
We recommend updating to Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS as soon as possible if you're using a GNU/Linux operating system powered by a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.4 series. To update, fire up the default package manager of your distro and install all the available updates. OS vendors and power users can download the Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS sources right now via our website or directly from kernel.org.