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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 with new changes and fixes. Well as we discussed in last week that 3.17 RC6 was the release candidate but unfortunately Linus considers another release candidate before publishing final stable 3.17 version.

According to official announcement by Linus, he said that, "I was really hoping that I could have left rc6 as the last rc and just releasing 3.17 today, but that was not to be. It's not that anything particularly scary happened, but quite frankly, things just didn't calm down as I hoped for. And while my travel schedule would have made it really nice had I been able to just do a shorter-than-usual release, "convenience" isn't really part of the release criteria. Oh well".

By his announcement, it is officially confirmed that the Linux Kernel 3.17 release will be delayed by one week and further merge window for development of 3.18 series and 3.17 will be delayed by couple of weeks. Because of some developers who made their submit at last moment leads in releasing this release candidate. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.17 series ?

Linus shows his anger by stating that, "And I'll be very grumpy if people send me pull requests that I deem inappropriate at this point. I don't think that much of rc7 ended up being "spurious", but I do get the feeling that there were people who had delayed until the last minute that accounts for some of the "not enough slowdown". If I get that feeling next week, I'll be my usual impolite self, and probably decide that you missed your chance".

The Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 comes with 60% driver fixes along with mix of documentation, arch, filesystem and networking. The i2c part of the patches stands out a bit because of some code movement, but apart from that the diffstat looks pretty calm. We have enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7

- drivers: net: ethernet: octeon_mgmt: fix a compiler warning.
- ACPI / video: disable native backlight for ThinkPad X201s.
- gpio: Fix gpio direction flags not getting set.
- IPoIB: Remove unnecessary port query.
- net: fix creation adjacent device symlinks.
- nilfs2: fix data loss with mmap().
- scsi_netlink : Make SCSI_NETLINK dependent on NET instead of selecting NET.
- bnx2i/bnx2fc : fix randconfig error in next-20140909.
- Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code.
- mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn().
- KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn().

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC7 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.16 RC7 with new changes and bug fixes. This time during the release of Linux Kernel 3.16 RC7, Linus is quite happy with this release as you know that he was upset about the release of Kernel 3.16 RC6 which he considered as one of the worst candidate under 3.16 kernel series.

According to official announcement, Linus Torvalds charmingly state that "I'm happy to say that things have calmed down a bit, and things look to be on track. Which didn't actually seem to be the case at all earlier this week - we had what appeared to be really nasty core bugs, and together with rc6 being bigger than previous rc's, I was really not feeling all that good about this release there for a while".

He describe that the worst and nasty bugs are cleared up in this release. One of the major highlighted fixes of this release candidate is fixing the compiler issue which is one of the scary and hard to debug. This compiler issue has fairly simple workaround so that developers didn't end up as a blacklist compilers. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new for Kernel developers ?

The Kernel 3.16 RC7 includes various bug fixes, but doesn't includes any special new feature which might entice to Linux users. The RC7 is one of the smaller candidate if you compared it with previous RCs. Linus state that, this might be the last RC but lets hope what happen in next week. The RC7 is about one third arch, one third drivers and one third "random". You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6 with new changes and minor fixes. Well according to changelog, it is confirmed that this release candidate is much smaller than RC5 release as it doesn't contain much changes particularly scary ones as we have found in RC5 release. He also made an announcement that next week he will announce Kernel 3.19 RC7 version and then final version will be available in next two weeks.

According to official announcement, Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6 comes with 70% driver changes in which a Dell laptop platform driver revert being is the biggest single patch, but apart from that some networking, gpu, gpio and sound drivers are also received minor fixes. It also includes 14% architecture updates in which x86 and arm updates are the biggest ones. We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in software world ?

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6

- gpio: crystalcove: use handle_nested_irq.
- can: kvaser_usb: Don't free packets when tight on URBs.
- can: kvaser_usb: Reset all URB tx contexts upon channel close.
- fix deadlock in cifs_ioctl_clone().
- PCI: Add flag for devices where we can't use bus reset.
- PCI: Mark Atheros AR93xx to avoid bus reset.
- ata: pata_at91: depend on !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM.
- x86/tsc: Change Fast TSC calibration failed from error to info.
- bus: mvebu-mbus: fix support of MBus window 13.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6 with minor changes and fixes. Well Linus is quite happy regarding the slow and steady progress of Kernel 3.18 but recently Kernel developers encounter one big issue in regression which was reported by Dave Jones and haven't solved by developers.

According to official announcement, Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6 comes with most of the changes which are small regressions along with smattering of stable patches. Apart from this, this RC release includes about half of driver fixes including fixes for drivers for networking, sound, pci and inifiniband along with few architecture updates and rest includes networking code. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.18 and 3.17 branches ?

Other miscellaneous fixes includes fixes for filesystem, documentation and scheduler. Linus specifically focused on the issue raised by Dave by saying that, "Really not a whole lot of code changed, and if it wasn't for the pending trouble from DaveJ, I'd probably be perfectly happy. Let's see how that all unfolds, but in the meantime, the more testing this can get, the better". We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Bugfixes made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6

- MIPS: oprofile: Fix backtrace on 64-bit kernel.
- ieee802154: fix error handling in ieee802154fake_probe().
- can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak on disconnect.
- ASoC: samsung: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for Snow.
- sched/numa: Fix out of bounds read in sched_init_numa().
- devicetree: vendor-prefixes.txt: fix whitespace.
- brcmfmac: fix conversion of channel width 20MHZ_NOHT.
- isofs: avoid unused function warning.
- ASoC: es8328-i2c: Fix i2c_device_id name field in es8328_id.
- srp-target: Retry when QP creation fails with ENOMEM.
- ath9k: fix regression in bssidmask calculation.
- x86, microcode: Update BSPs microcode on resume.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of bugfixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Ubuntu Kernel Team officially announces that upcoming Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" distro will be based on latest Linux Kernel 3.16 series. As you know that Linus Torvalds working on latest Linux Kernel 3.16 series and announces the release of Kernel 3.16 at particular time period. Currently, Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 was released, but Ubuntu developers are planning to introduce Linux Kernel 3.16 RC3 in Utopic Unicorn, but it is still unclear.

According to official announcement made by Joseph Salisbury, it is officially confirmed that upcoming Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" will support Linux Kernel 3.16 as default kernel. The developers are planning to update the ctk ppa (ppa:canoncial-kernel-team/ppa), so that users can upgrade their kernel to 3.16 series.

In his official statement, Joseph Salisbury, state that "We have rebased our Utopic kernel "unstable" branch to v3.16-rc3 and uploaded to our ckt ppa (ppa:canonical-kernel-team/ppa). I don't anticipate an official v3.16 based upload to the archive until further testing and baking has taken place".

We hope that the life cycle of release candidates of Linux Kernel 3.16 will be over before final release of Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" as you know that every Linux Kernel has atmost 8 to 10 release candidates and 3.16 Kernel series has already release 6 release candidates till yet. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 which is the sixth release candidate under stable Kernel 3.16 series. Well this is another maintenance release which includes fixes of previous release candidates. Also, review recent RC releases of Kernel 3.16 series.

According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds, it is officially confirmed the Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 comes with minor fixes. Well Linus Torvalds is quite unhappy with this release because of its size. He made an unpleasant statement as "Week by week, we're getting to what is supposed to be the last rc's, but quite frankly, things aren't calming down the way they are supposed to".

The previous released Kernel 3.16 RC5 was quite bigger than RC 4 but RC6 is much smaller than all previous release candidates till yet. Linus consider this release as a trivial release because it much smaller than earlier ones. The RC6 release also includes changes in drivers, filesystems including nfs fixes, xfs, fuse, gfs2 and btrfs. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

In his official mailing list, he made his disappointment by stating, "Anyway, rc6 still isn't all *that* big, so I'm not exactly worried, but I am getting to the point where I'm going to start calling people names and shouting at you if you send me stuff that isn't appropriate for the late rc releases. Which is not to say that people did: while rc6 is bigger than I wished for, I don't think there's too much obviously frivolous in there. But I'll be keepign an eye out, and I'll be starting to get grumpy (or grumpiER) if I notice that peopel aren't being serious about trying to calm things down".

List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6

- ALSA: hda - Add new GPU codec ID 0x10de0070 to snd-hda.
- usb: chipidea: udc: Disable auto ZLP generation on ep0.
- openvswitch: Use exact lookup for flow_get and flow_del.
- farsync: fix invalid memory accesses in fst_add_one() and fst_init_card().
- GRE: enable offloads for GRE.
- fuse: ignore entry-timeout on LOOKUP_REVAL.
- appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb.
- efi/arm64: efistub: remove local copy of linux_banner.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of changes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Ben Hutchings, one of the maintainer of Linux Kernel, officially announces the release of stable Linux Kernel 3.2.67 with several bug fixes and new changes. Those users who still uses Kernel 3.2.x series can upgrade their Kernel version to newer Linux Kernel 3.2.67 version. This release comes with long term support with widely used by various Linux Distros.

According to official announcement made by Ben Hutchings, I'm announcing the release of the 3.2.67 kernel. All users of the 3.2 kernel series should upgrade. The updated 3.2.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.2.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. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.2.x series ?

Among several bugfixes, Linux Kernel 3.2.67 includes fixed unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe, support for Acer in bluetooth, fixed multicast LED blinking and counter, fixed FIFO size, fixed locking bugs in backported "deal with deadlock in d_walk()" and apply generic position and size checks to each write Linux 3.2.67. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

List of Other Bugfixes in Linux Kernel 3.2.67

- USB: adutux: NULL dereferences on disconnect.
- ALSA: hda - using uninitialized data.
- dm space map metadata: fix sm_bootstrap_get_nr_blocks().
- decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block().
- HID: roccat: potential out of bounds in pyra_sysfs_write_settings().
- netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer
- ipv6: mld: fix add_grhead skb_over_panic for devs with large MTUs.
- net: sctp: fix race for one-to-many sockets in sendmsg's auto associate.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.2.67 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all bugfixes then you must visit their official release notes page.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6 with minor new changes and bug fixes. Well according to him, this release is the last release candidate under 3.17 series and the final or stable Kernel 3.17 will be released by next Sunday. But everything depends on situation whether the developers comes across new and complicated issue then final release will be postponed for sometime.

According to official announcement made by Linus, It's been quiet - enough so that coupled with my upcoming travel, this might just be the last -rc, and final 3.17 might be next weekend. Of course, that still depends on what happens - if we have something scary coming up next week, I may have to delay things. But as it looks right now, we're all good to go". Also, review recent Kernel News to know what has happened in Kernel 3.17 series till yet.

The changelog of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6 explores that this release comes with half of the driver fixes including fixes for gpu, sound, iio, media & usb. It also includes one third of architecture updates for arm, mips and x86 and rest of the changes are included in filesystems such as gfs2, cifs, btrfs and nfs. We have also enlisted some of the bug fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6

- MIPS: OCTEON: make get_system_type() thread-safe.
- GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses.
- USB: EHCI: unlink QHs even after the controller has stopped.
- arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c: fix failure check.
- cifs: remove dead code.
- MIPS: ZBOOT: add missing <linux/string.h> include.
- drm/nouveau: ltc/gf100-: fix cbc issues on certain.
- GFS2: Hash the negative dentry during inode lookup.
- drm: sti: do not iterate over the info frame array.

These are some of the major fixes made in Kernel 3.17 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes, then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Greg Kroah Hartman officially announces the release of stable Linux Kernel 3.10.75 with several improvements and bugfixes. As you know there are lot of Kernel branches which are available for Linux users and Linux 3.10.75 is the new update in Linux 3.10.x series. If you using older version of Linux 3.10.x series, then you must upgrade it with 3.10.75 version.

According to official announcement, Greg Kroah Hartman state that, "I'm announcing the release of the 3.10.75 kernel. All users of the 3.10 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.10.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.10.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.

Among several fixes, Linux Kernel 3.10.75 includes defer processing of REQ_PREEMPT requests for blocked devices, fix crash in TCP Fast Open, use iio_trigger_get for indio_dev->trig assignment, fix use-after-free bug find_writable_file, run INIT firmware again upon .start(), add one more node in EAPD supporting candidate list, fix sel_write_enforce broken return value. We have also enlisted some of the other bugfixes below. You might also like to review recent Kernel News to know what's new in them ?

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.10.75

- usb: xhci: apply XHCI_AVOID_BEI quirk to all Intel xHCI controllers.
- IB/mlx4: Saturate RoCE port PMA counters in case of overflow.
- media: s5p-mfc: fix mmap support for 64bit arch.
- ipc: fix compat msgrcv with negative msgtyp.
- iscsi target: fix oops when adding reject pdu.
- console: Fix console name size mismatch.
- dmaengine: omap-dma: Fix memory leak when terminating running transfer.
- IB/uverbs: Prevent integer overflow in ib_umem_get address arithmetic.
- nbd: fix possible memory leak.
- ALSA: hda - Fix headphone pin config for Lifebook T731.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.10.75 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all bugfixes then you must visit their official release notes page.

After the release of Linux Kernel 3.16, Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC1 which is the first release candidate under 3.17 series. This release mainly includes new proposed features for Kernel 3.17 along with fixes which were reported in previous series. He also made a note that the upcoming RC2 will also be small like this release.

According to official announcement, Linus Torvalds state that "I'm going to be on a plane much of tomorrow, and am not really supportive of last-minute pull requests during the merge window anyway, so I'm closing the merge window one day early, and 3.17-rc1 is out there now. Well, it's been out for a while now, but the network was bad enough where I'm traveling that I couldn't get this *announcement* out".

Linus Torvalds also state that this candidate is probably is smaller than previous ones and consider it is an average release which contains shortlog, some of them illustrated below. About this Linus state that "It's certainly big enough that I can't post the shortlog, so as usual this just appends the "mergelog" where the people credited are the people I pulled from, not necessarily the people who wrote the code". Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in recent releases of Kernel ?

The Linux Kernel 3.17 RC1 includes minor changes with no huge new architectures or filesystems. It primarily includes three quarters of changes belongs to drivers and rest nearly half of changes includes some architecture updates along with miscellaneous changes for networking and filesystem. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.18 RC5 with new changes and fixes. Well this release candidate is much bigger than RC4 release. He also mentioned that there are still some serious issues which we have to look into before the final release of Kernel 3.18. We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post.

After the calm release of Kernel 3.18 RC4, now Linus announces the release of Kernel 3.18 RC5 and state "We had a very calm -rc4, and I wish I could say that things continued to calm down, but...  Yeah, rc5 is clearly bigger than rc4 was. Oh well". He also says that RC4 was unusally smaller than this release. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what has happened in 3.18 series ?

The new changes of Kernel 3.18 RC5 aren't much odd or scary as it includes about 55% driver fixes including fixes for networking, gpu, cypto, thermal and sound drivers. It includes 15% arch updates which includes updated xtensa, x86, arm[64], parsic and sparc. Apart from this, other fixes includes fixes for networking, filesystem, VM, documentation and tracing updates. The overall changes are very small and about one third of stable Kernel release. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC5

- cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Fix arguments in clock failure error message.
- ACPI / blacklist: blacklist Win8 OSI for Dell Vostro 3546.
- HID: usbhid: enable always-poll quirk for Elan Touchscreen 0103.
- drm/gk20a/fb: fix setting of large page size bit.
- sparc32: Implement xchg and atomic_xchg using ATOMIC_HASH locks.
- ARM: mvebu: armada xp: Generalize use of i2c quirk.
- net: dsa: slave: Fix autoneg for phys on switch MDIO bus.
- NFS: SEEK is an NFS v4.2 feature.
- ahci: fix AHCI parameters not taken into account.
- hwmon: (fam15h_power) Fix NB device ID for F16h M30h.
- thermal: imx: correct driver load sequence for cpu cooling.
- thermal: exynos: use correct offset for TMU_CONTROL register on Exynos5260.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC5 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Greg Kroah Hartman officially announces the release of stable Linux Kernel 3.16.1 with new and enhanced features. Well according to kernel team, this release is the most advanced Kernel version available for all Linux Distros. As you know that Linus Torvalds already announces 7 release candidates under Kernel 3.16 series and now Hartman announces the stable release with fixed issues. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in 3.16 series ?

According to official announcement made by Greg K Hartman, "I'm announcing the release of the 3.16.1 kernel. All users of the 3.16 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.16.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.16.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".

This is the first stable release under Kernel 3.16 series and contains minor changes and bug fixes. The upcoming stable version will include all the proposed features of Linux Kernel 3.16 series. We have enlisted some of the fixes below in this article. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.16.1

- arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c: drop stray break operator.
- bbc-i2c: Fix BBC I2C envctrl on SunBlade 2000.
- sunsab: Fix detection of BREAK on sunsab serial console.
- ip_tunnel(ipv4): fix tunnels with "local any remote $remote_ip".
- sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit().
- Revert "net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus device".
- bna: fix performance regression.
- tg3: Modify tg3_tso_bug() to handle multiple TX rings.
- iovec: make sure the caller actually wants anything in memcpy_fromiovecend.
- sparc64: ldc_connect() should not return EINVAL when handshake is in progress.
- batman-adv: Fix out-of-order fragmentation support.

These are some of the major fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.16.1 release. If you wish then you could check out complete list of bug fixes on their official changelog page.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Kernel 3.16 RC5 with minor new changes and bug fixes. Well this release is a small release and the fifth candidate under 3.16 series. Afer the release of Kernel 3.16 RC4, this is another maintenance release with minor changes and fixes.

According to official announcement, Kernel 3.16 RC5 comes with major improvements in drivers. In his official statement, Linus state that "Things are looking normal, and as usual, I _wish_ there was a bit less churn going on since it's getting fairly late in the rc cycle, but honestly, it's not like there is anything that really raises any eyebrows here".

The Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5 comes with major changes in drivers with acpi and gpu sticking out. Some other packages such as hid, hwmon, iio, thermal, clk drivers, libata and pinctrl are mixed in this release. Apart from this, some usual architecture updates are made in this release. Some couple of fixes of filesystem and core fixes are also includes in this release. You might also like to check out recent Kernel Updates to know what's new in Linux Kernel 3.16 till now ?

List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5

- thermal: hwmon: Make the check for critical temp valid consistent.
- ARM: EXYNOS: Fix the check for non-smp configuration.
- PCI: Fix unaligned access in AF transaction pending test.
- drm/radeon/dpm: Reenabling SS on Cayman.
- clocksource: exynos_mct: Register the timer for stable udelay.
- USB: cp210x: add support for Corsair usb dongle.
- ACPI / resources: only reject zero length resources based at address zero.
- Thermal: imx: correct critical trip temperature setting.
- usb: option: Add ID for Telewell TW-LTE 4G v2
- USB: ftdi_sio: Add extra PID.

These are some of the bug fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC5 release. If you wish to review complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC5 with pretty small changes and fixes. Like every Sunday, Linus announced the updated Kernel 3.17 RC5 release which mainly includes networking, drivers and architecture fixes.

According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, He was planning to release this candidate by Wednesday this week but at the end he released on Sunday like other candidate releases. About this he commented that "So I should probably have delayed this until Wednesday for sentimental reasons: that will be 23 years since I uploaded the 0.01 source tree. But I'm not an overly sentimental person, so screw that. I'm doing my normal Sunday release".

As you know that the previous Kernel 3.17 RC4 was very small compared to earlier releases because neither Greg K Hartman nor Davem had sent their updates regarding fixes, but both of them submit their updates and fixes for this release candidate. So, we hope that RC5 will not be as small as previous RC4 release. Also, review recent Linux Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.17 series release ?

About the old performance regression in dentry cache, Linus state that "I also got a report of an *old* performance regression in the dentry cache (since 3.10 - positively ancient), and that in turn made me look around some more, and there were a few other special cases that could cause us to not do as well as we should. I fixed some of it, and Al fixed the rest. So hopefully we not only fixed the reported regression, but are actually doing better than we used to".

The Kernel 3.17 RC5 comes with new changes in half of drivers which includes fixes in networking, gpu, usb, input and ata. Apart from this, it also includes updated filesystems, some architecture updates and core networking. Linus also claim that the upcoming RC6 and RC7 will be more calmer than earlier ones. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC5

- usb: xhci: Fix OOPS in xhci error handling code.
- move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon).
- fix bogus read_seqretry() checks introduced in b37199e.
- don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu().
- be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu().
- USB: document the 'u' flag for usb-storage quirks parameter.
- Block: fix unbalanced bypass-disable in blk_register_queue.
- net: prevent of emerging cross-namespace symlinks.
- at76c50x-usb: fix use after free on failure path in at76_probe().
- cpufreq / OPP: Fix the order of arguments for kcalloc().
- jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies

These are some of the major fixes which you may find in this release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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Ima Sheep officially announces the release of stable Linux Kernel 4.0 version as per right schedule with minor bugfixes. All those who are using Linux Kernel 3.0 version, must upgrade their version to Kernel 4.0. Linux Kernel 4.0 doesn't contain any special features.

According to official announcement, Ima Sheep claimed that there weren't any known issues and it won't affect the merge window very much. Well, Linux Kernel 4.0 is pretty small release both in linux-next and in final size, although "small" is all relative. According to git log, it is confirmed that there are still over 10K non-merge commits are pending.

The Kernel 4.0 is basically a time-based release instead of feature based release. Ima Sheep says, "Kernel 4.0 is supposed to be a _stable_ release and very much not about new experiment features. Numerologically, Linux Kernel 4.0 version made a history by crossing half a million commits total and 4 million git object limit whereas Linux Kernel 3.0 crossed quarter million commits and 2 million git objects.

According to earlier features of Kernel 4.0 includes no-reboot patching, adds new drivers and updates existing ones, brings better support for new hardware components and includes several other interesting features. The release notes state that, "Much have been made of the new kernel patching infrastructure, but realistically, that not only wasn't the reason for the version number change, we've had much bigger changes in other versions. So this is very much a "solid code progress" release". You might also like to check out other latest Kernel Updates to know what's happening in Kernel world ?

Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of fourth release candidate of Linux Kernel 3.19 right on time along with new changes and fixes. The previously released Kernel 3.19 RC3 was not much major this one. This is another maintenance release which primarily includes some of the driver updates along with architecture fixes and other minor fixes.

According to official announcement, Linus claims that "things have remained clam, although we also had a few last-minute MM regressions, among which most of them are fixed quickly with one remaining arm64 issue still pending. He also said that the volunteers can submit and test Kernel 3.19 RC5 as he was travelling a lot this week, but he might notice anything which is strange is something going wrong. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.19 branch ?

If we look as the changelog of Kernel 3.19 RC4, then you get to know that apart from kgdb patches showing up as some uncommon work under kernel/debug/. It also includes some driver updates including gpu, pinctrl, hid, networking along with few architecture updates specially for x86 and some minor arm[64] stuff along with some tooling fixes. We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.19 RC4

- ALSA: hda - Add new GPU codec ID 0x10de0072 to snd-hda.
- sched: Fix KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE overflow during cpumask allocation.
- drm/nouveau: fix missing return statement in nouveau_ttm_tt_unpopulate.
- drm/radeon: do not leave queue acquired if timeout happens in
kgd_hqd_destroy().
- perf/x86/uncore/hsw-ep: Handle systems with only two SBOXes.
- perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch code.
- perf/x86_64: Improve user regs sampling.
- qla3xxx: don't allow never end busy loop.
- arm64/efi: add missing call to early_ioremap_reset().
- openvswitch: Consistently include VLAN header in flow and port stats.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.19 RC4. If you wish to review other bugfixes of Kernel 3.19 RC4 then you must visit their official changelog page.

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