14 DAY TRIAL // Immediately after announcing the availability of Linux kernel 4.9.7, Greg Kroah-Hartman informed the community about the immediate availability of the forty-sixth maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel series.
Linux 4.4 is currently the most popular LTS (Long Term Support) kernel branch, used by popular GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), Alpine Linux, OpenSuSE Leap 42.2, as well as Arch Linux. Just like today's Linux 4.9.7 kernel release, Linux kernel 4.4.46 LTS comes one week after the previous maintenance update to change a total of 32 files, with 152 insertions and 81 deletions.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.46 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. 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," said Greg Kroah-Hartman.
A small patch, but it's recommended to update as soon as possible
According to the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 4.4.46 LTS is a small patch consisting of multiple InfiniBand driver changes, various minor improvements to the ARC, PA-RISC, Tile, and s390 hardware architectures, updated I2C, PINCTRL, FBDEV, and networking drivers, a couple of enhancements to NFS (Network File System) support, an updated networking stack with two SunRPC changes, and the usual mm and core kernel fixes.
If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.4 series, we recommend updating today's Linux kernel 4.4.46 LTS release as soon as possible, or as soon as the new version arrives in the stable software repositories of your favorite operating systems. It's also possible to download the source tarball right now from kernel.org or via our web portal.