All users of the kernel 3.14 series must update

Jul 1, 2015 23:37 GMT  ·  By

After having announced the release of the Linux kernel 4.1.1, Linux kernel 4.0.7, and Linux kernel 3.10.82 LTS, Greg Kroah-Hartman has also published details about a new maintenance release of the Linux 3.14 kernel branch.

According to the appended changelog, Linux kernel 3.14.46 LTS, which is a long-term support version that will receive security patches and updates for a few more years, appears to be a small release that adds improvements to the ARM and ARM64 hardware architectures, fixes a KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine issue, and updates Bluetooth, GPU, Crypto, and SCSI drivers.

Among some noteworthy changes, we can mention support for exporting demux regids as KVM_REG_ARM64, unmap_range fixes and refactoring, support for 0489:e076 and 13d3:3474 AR3012 devices, addition of iotag memory barrier, support for stage 2 MMIO page mapping, fixes for wrong HSCTLR.EE bit settings, fixes for RNG buffer cache alignment issues, as well as support for storing kvm_vcpu_fault_info est_el2 as word.

"I'm announcing the release of the 3.14.46 kernel. All users of the 3.14 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 3.14.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.14.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."

All users of the Linux 3.14 kernel series must update as soon as possible

As expected, all users of the Linux 3.14 kernel series are urged by Greg Kroah-Hartman to update their systems as soon as possible to the new Linux kernel 3.14.46 LTS release, which should be available on the default software repositories of their GNU/Linux distributions in the coming days. In the meantime, you can download the Linux kernel 3.14.46 LTS sources right now via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website.