14 DAY TRIAL // Greg Kroah-Hartman is on a roll, and he shows no signs of stopping delivering new maintenance updates for latest Linux kernels. After announcing the end of life for the Linux 4.8 kernel series, he's now reporting on the Linux 4.4.41 LTS kernel.
Linux 4.4 is a long-term supported branch, currently used by Canonical in its Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system (sadly, it will be replaced by Linux 4.8 when Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS launches on January 19, 2017), as well as various other operating systems, including the popular Alpine Linux and Arch Linux distributions.
Linux kernel 4.4.41 LTS is now the latest version, which lands less than a week after the release of the Linux 4.4.40 LTS maintenance update. However, that doesn't mean it has to be a small patch, and, in fact, it looks like it changes a total of 78 files, with 605 insertions and 187 deletions, according to the appended shortlog.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.41 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.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.
Includes PowerPC, Nouveau, Radeon, wireless, and SCSI improvements
Among the changes, we can notice a bunch of updated Nouveau, Radeon, wireless, SCSI (s390), InfiniBand, and TTY drivers, as well as a multitude of fixes for the PowerPC (PPC) support. There are also small enhancements for the ARC and x86 hardware architectures, and some ACPI, CLK, MD, PCI, staging, and thermal driver fixes.
The rest of the patch contains miscellaneous networking (mac80211, Ceph, wireless) and filesystem (NFS) changes. If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.4 series, you are urged to update to version 4.4.41 as soon as possible. The source tarball is available for download right now from kernel.org or via our website.