14 DAY TRIAL // Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few moments ago the release and general availability of a new set of maintenance updates for Linux 4.10, as well as the long-term supported Linux 4.9 and 4.4 kernels.
The Linux 4.10.15, 4.9.27 LTS and 4.4.67 LTS kernels are here only five days after their previous point releases, and according to their appended shortlogs (here, here and here), they are very small patches fixing a few CIFS and Ceph issues. Linux kernel 4.10.15 changes a total of 13 files, with 187 insertions and 28 deletions, Linux kernel 4.9.27 LTS 20 changes 20 files, with 306 insertions and 75 deletions, and Linux kernel 4.4.67 LTS changes 29 files, with 307 insertions and 56 deletions.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.10.15 [4.9.27 and 4.4.67] kernel. All users of the 4.10 [4.9 and 4.4] kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.10.y [4.9.y and 4.4.y] git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.10.y, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y, and git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.y," said Greg Kroah-Hartman.
CIFS and Ceph improvements, updated drivers
As mentioned before, the changes included in the Linux 4.10.15, 4.9.27 LTS and 4.4.67 LTS kernels are about improvements to the CIFS and Ceph filesystems, but Linux kernel 4.4.67 LTS also comes with some enhancements to the EXT4 and NFS filesystems. Various updated drivers are also present in all releases, this time for hwmon, MD, SCSI, TTY, InfiniBand, MTD, Ethernet (Broadcom), and RDMA devices. Small ALSA and Netlink fixes are also present in the Linux 4.4.67 LTS kernel.
If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.9 or 4.4 series, or from the Linux 4.10 branch, you are urged to update your system to the Linux 4.10.15, 4.9.27 LTS and 4.4.67 LTS kernels as soon as possible, or as soon as they land in the stable repositories. OS vendors and those who are brave enough to compile their own kernel can download the Linux kernels 4.10.15, 4.9.27 LTS and 4.4.67 LTS source tarballs right now from kernel.org.