14 DAY TRIAL // Immediately after informing the community about the release of Linux kernel 4.8.9, which is currently on its way to your favorite GNU/Linux OS, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the availability of Linux kernel 4.4.33 LTS.
Just like Linux kernel 4.8.9, Linux kernel 4.4.33 LTS is here only four days after the release of the thirty-second maintenance update to the long-term supported branch, but it looks like it's a small version, changing a total of 37 files, with 268 insertions and 162 deletions, according to the appended shortlog and the diff from Linux kernel 4.4.32 LTS announced on November 15, 2016.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.33 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade," said 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."
Includes mostly updated drivers
It looks like Linux kernel 4.4.33 LTS includes mostly updated drivers, for ACPI, GPU (Intel i915), iiO, IOMMU, DMA, CLK, MMC, Ethernet (Intel i40e), NFC, SCSI, TTY, USB, and PINCTRL devices, but there are also minor changes to the s390, MIPS, and ARC hardware architectures, a fix for the Btrfs file system, and an updated sound stack that adds small fixes to the sun4i-codec and Cirrus Logic CS4270 ASoC.
Therefore, if you're using a Linux-based operating system powered by a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.4 series, you are urged to update to version 4.4.33 as soon as possible, or more precisely as soon as it lands in the stable repositories of your favorite distro. OS vendors and power users can download the Linux kernel 4.4.33 LTS source archive right now from kernel.org and compile it themselves.