All users of the Linux 4.4 LTS kernel branch must update

Sep 30, 2016 13:05 GMT  ·  By

Immediately after announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.7.6, Greg Kroah-Hartman proudly informed the community about the general availability of the Linux 4.4.23 LTS kernel.

The Linux 4.4 kernel is a long-term supported branch, the latest and most advanced one, used in many stable and reliable GNU/Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Alpine Linux 3.4. Therefore, it is imperative for it to receive regular updates that bring fixes to the most important issues, as well as other general improvements.

"I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.23 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "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."

What's new in Linux kernel 4.4.23 LTS

Linux kernel 4.4.23 LTS is a fairly normal update that changes a total of 84 files, with 625 insertions and 512 deletions. According to the diff from the previous maintenance release, Linux kernel 4.4.22 LTS, and the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 4.4.23 LTS comes with improvements to the ARM, Blackfin, ARM64, and MIPS hardware architectures, as well as to the autofs4, Btrfs, HostFS, OCFS2, XFS, and ReiserFS filesystems.

The networking stack saw some improvements as well, with IPv4, IPv6, Transparent Inter-process Communication (TIPC), wireless, IrDA, and CAIF changes, and there are the usual updated drivers, this time for I2C, GPU, iiO, IOMMU, MTD, power, PWM, SCSI, and networking (mostly Ethernet and wireless) devices.

Linux kernel 4.4.23 LTS will soon land in the main repos of your distro, so update as soon as possible. You can also download its sources right now via our website or from kernel.org.