14 DAY TRIAL // Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the availability of yet another maintenance update to the Linux 3.18 kernel series despite it remaining marked as [EOL] End-of-Life on the kernel.org website.
Coming only one week after the release of the Linux kernel 3.18.52 patch, Linux kernel 3.18.53 is a modest update that changes a total of 42 files, with 264 insertions and 150 deletions, at least according to the appended shortlog. It includes a little bit of everything (see below for details), with most of the changes being networking related, both drivers and core.
"I'm announcing the release of the 3.18.53 kernel. All users of the 3.18 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.18.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.18.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.
If you're still running the Linux 3.18 kernel, you need to update
Among the things that got improved in the Linux 3.18.53 kernel, we can mention the Broadcom brcm80211 and Marvell mwifiex wireless drivers, multiple USB serial drivers (Digi AccelePort, Quatech SSU-100, Ark3116, MCT U232, TI USB 3410/5052), the networking stack, which received small IPv4 and IPv6 changes, the F2FS and 9p filesystems, as well as the x86, ARM, and PowerPC (PPC) hardware architectures.
If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the Linux 3.18 series, you should know the drill already, so make sure that you update to the Linux kernel 3.18.53 release as soon as possible. OS vendors and those who like to compile their own kernel can download the Linux kernel 3.18.53 source tarball right now from kernel.org or via our website.