14 DAY TRIAL // Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today the availability of the tenth maintenance update to the long-term supported and most advanced Linux kernel series, Linux 4.9, for all supported operating systems.
Linux kernel 4.9.10 comes one week after the release of Linux kernel 4.9.9, and from the appended shortlog, it looks like it's a normal update that changes a total of 72 files, with 463 insertions and 290 deletions. As for what's included in this new point release of the Linux 4.9 kernel series, half of the patch includes updated drivers, this time for things like Intel i915, crypto, ACPI, CPUFreq, HV, InfiniBand, MD, NVDIMM, SCSI, and networking.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.10 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.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.
ARM, x86, and PowerPC improvements, updated sound stack
The other half of the Linux kernel 4.9.10 patch is split between various improvements to the ARM, x86, and PowerPC (PPC) hardware architectures and updated networking (mac80211 and wireless) and sound stacks. There's also a little bit of perf, mm, and core kernel work, along with a fix for the Btrfs file system to address btrfs_compat_ioctl failures on non-compatible ioctls, and another SELinux fix for off-by-one in setprocattr.
If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution that's powered by a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.9 branch, you are urged to update to today's 4.9.10 release as soon as possible, or as soon as the new version lands in the stable software repositories of your operating system. OS vendors are also urged to download the Linux kernel 4.9.10 source tarball from kernel.org or via our website, compile and tweak it for their supported architectures.