14 DAY TRIAL // Renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the end of life of the Linux 4.13 kernel series, urging all users to move to the Linux 4.14 LTS branch as soon as possible.
At the end of last week, the developer announced the sixteenth maintenance update to the Linux 4.13 kernel series, versioned 4.13.16, which appears to be the last to be released for the branch. This means that Linux 4.13 won't receive any other updates.
Therefore, if you're using a kernel from the Linux 4.13 series, you need to upgrade to Linux kernel 4.13.16 or prepare to upgrade to the latest Linux 4.14 LTS kernel, which is a long-term support release that should be maintained for the next few years.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.13.16 kernel. All users of the 4.13 kernel series must upgrade," said Greg Kroah-Hartman in the mailing list announcement. "Please note, this is the LAST 4.13.y kernel to be released, it is now end-of-life. Move to 4.14.y now."
Linux kernel 4.13.16 changes 39 files, 178 insertions and 133 deletions
For those not yet prepared to upgrade to Linux kernel 4.14 LTS, we'd like to tell them that Linux kernel 4.13.16 changes a total of 39 files, with 178 insertions and 133 deletions. Most of the changes are networking related, both drivers and core networking.
According to the appended shortlog, it brings updates to various USB drivers, Mellanox and Broadcom Ethernet drivers, the OCFS2 file system, and a bunch of core networking changes to the IPv4, L2TP, SCTP, Netlink, and IEEE 802.1Q implementations.
For more details on the changes, don't hesitate to check out the mailing list announcement or download the Linux kernel 4.13.16 source tarball from kernel.org or via our website. If you decide to move to Linux kernel 4.14, you can download it right now from our website.