All users of the Linux 3.10 kernel series must upgrade

Aug 4, 2015 03:20 GMT  ·  By

After announcing the release of the Linux kernel 4.1.4 LTS, Greg Kroah-Hartman published details about the eighty-fifth maintenance release of the Linux 3.10 kernel series, a long-term supported version that will receive security patches for a few more years than regular releases.

Looking at the appended shortlog, we can notice that Linux kernel 3.10.85 LTS brings new documentation for the PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem on Marvell ARMADA 370 System-on-Chip (SoC) and Marvell Quad-Core ARMADA XP Series SoC, adds improvements to the ARC, ARM, ARM64, and MIPS architectures, and enhances the Btrfs, EXT4, FUSE, HPFS, NFS, XFS, and jbd2 file systems.

Additionally, Linux kernel 3.10.85 LTS contains numerous updated drivers, especially for things like Watchdog, USB, iSCSI, PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL), Regulator, PCMCIA, Wireless, DVB, MMC, MTD, MD, InfiniBand, iiO, I2C, DRM (Radeon), DMA, CPUIdle, Bluetooth, Block, and ATA. Also, there are various sound and networking improvements.

"I'm announcing the release of the 3.10.85 kernel. All users of the 3.10 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "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."

All users of the 3.10 kernel branch are urged to upgrade

If you're running a GNU/Linux operating system powered by a kernel image from the Linux 3.10 LTS series, you are urged to update to Linux kernel 3.10.85 LTS as soon as possible. The sources of Linux kernel 3.10.85 LTS can be downloaded either via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website Softpedia, whichever suits you best. Distribution vendors are also urged to update their Linux 3.10 kernel packages to the new release immediately.