14 DAY TRIAL // Immediately after announcing earlier today the availability of the first point release of the Linux 4.11 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman is informing the community about the launch of new maintenance updates to the Linux 4.10, 4.9 and 4.4 kernels.
Linux kernels 4.10.16, 4.9.28 LTS and 4.4.68 LTS are out, and they're major patches incorporating numerous improvements. According to their appended shortlogs (here, here and here), Linux kernel 4.10.16 is the biggest of them all changing a total of 145 files, with 1045 insertions and 674 deletions, then Linux kernel 4.9.28 LTS is on the second place with 123 files changed, with 933 insertions and 514 deletions, and Linux kernel 4.4.68 LTS changes 64 files, with 513 insertions and 335 deletions.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.10.16 [4.9.28 and 4.4.68] 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.
Lots of improvements to wireless drivers, ARM and x86 changes
Among the things that got improved in these new point releases of the Linux 4.10, 4.9 and 4.4 kernel series, we can mention the ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), PowerPC (PPC), x86, SPARC, and MIPS architectures, as well as the 9p and F2FS filesystems, updated networking (IPv4, IPv6, Open vSwitch) and sound (Intel HDA) stacks, and lots of updated drivers for wireless (Intel iwlwifi, Marvell mwifiex, Broadcom brcm80211), power, SCSI, SPI, USB, Xen, and TTY.
You should know the drill already if you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from either the Linux 4.10, 4.9 or 4.4 series. You should update to the Linux 4.10.16, 4.9.28 LTS or 4.4.68 LTS kernels as soon as they land in the stable software repositories of your OS. On the other hand, OS vendors and power users who need to compile their own kernels can download the source tarballs of Linux kernels 4.10.16, 4.9.28 LTS or 4.4.68 LTS right now from kernel.org or via our website.