14 DAY TRIAL // Ben Hutchings, Linux kernel developer and maintainer of the Linux 3.2 and 3.16 long-term supported kernel branches, announced today, April 6, 2017, the availability of two new maintenance releases, namely Linux 3.16.43 LTS and Linux 3.2.88 LTS.
While Linux kernel 3.2.88 LTS is a very small bugfix release that only changes a total of 5 files, with 10 insertions and 8 deletions, adding a security fix and a couple of networking improvements for the IPv4 and L2TP protocols, Linux kernel 3.16.43 LTS is here to change a total of 48 files, with 366 insertions and 1246 deletions, according to the appended shortlog.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.16.43 [and 3.2.88] kernel. All users of the 3.16 [and 3.2] kernel series should upgrade. The updated 3.16.y git tree can be found at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.16.y," said Ben Hutchings. "The updated 3.2.y git tree can be found at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.2.y."
MIPS fixes, improvements to networking stack and supported filesystems
Among the things that have been changed in the Linux 3.16.43 LTS kernel, we can mention quite a bunch of improvements for the MIPS hardware architecture, a few updated drivers, specifically for the MMC, TTY, HID, and ATM ones, various fixes to the NFS and sysfs filesystems, an updated networking stack with netlink enhancements, as well as the usual core kernel, security, and mm changes.
If you're using a GNU/Linux operating system powered by a kernel from either the Linux 3.16 or 3.2 long-term supported series, we recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible to today's Linux kernel 3.16.43 LTS and Linux kernel 3.2.88 LTS maintenance updates, whose source tarballs are available for download right now from kernel.org or via our website.