14 DAY TRIAL // Immediately after releasing the Linux 4.10.7 kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today the availability of the nineteenth maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 4.9 kernel series.
Just like Linux kernel 4.10.7, the Linux kernel 4.9.19 LTS release comes, surprisingly, only three days after the release of the previous maintenance update, in this case, Linux kernel 4.9.18 LTS. According to the appended shortlog, this is also a major patch that changes a total 98 files, with 812 insertions and 403 deletions. As expected, most of the patch are updated drivers.
"I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.19 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.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.
Updated USB and networking drivers, various improvements
Among the changes implemented in the Linux 4.9.19 LTS kernel, we can mention updated CLK, CPUFreq, crypto, DAX, GPU (AMDGPU, analogix), HV, hwtracing, iiO, input (joystick, mouse, tablet, touchscreen), IOMMU, MMC, Ethernet (amd-xgbe, Broadcom GENET, Mellanox mlx5), Wireless (Marvell mwifiex), USB, UWB, and Xen drivers, as well as improvements to the EXT4 and JBD2 filesystems.
The networking and sound stacks have been improved as well, with various improvements for Ceph, IPv4, IPv6, Open vSwitch, nl80211, cthw20k1, and Realtek, and there are a few bugs fixed for the ARM, ARM64, and PowerPC (PPC) architectures as well. If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.9 LTS series, you are urged to update to version 4.9.19 as soon as possible. Download Linux kernel 4.9.19 LTS from kernel.org or via our website.