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Do as Greg says [1][2][3][4]: > All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. Changes for Linux 4.9.3 [5][6]: > ### Lots of XFS improvements, numerous updated drivers ### > > As the headline suggests, a big part of the Linux kernel 4.9.3 patch are > various improvements for the XFS file system, but as expected, the > biggest part is represented by updated drivers, this time for USB, > wireless (ath10k, rtlwifi), IOMMU, iiO, hwmon, Intel i915, CLK, and a > little bit of MMC, PINCTRL, PCI, SCSI, and IRQ Chip. Architecture > changes are also present, for ARM, ARM64/AArch64, MIPS, x86, CRIS, s390, > and PA-RISC. > > Besides the usual mm and core kernel noise, the Linux 4.9.3 kernel also > updates the sound and networking stacks with mac80211, wireless > (nl80211), Intel Skylake, Intel HDA, and Samsung I2S changes. It's a > really big one, the biggest so far since the release of Linux kernel 4.9 > on December 11, 2016, and if you've already managed to migrate your > systems to this new stable branch, we recommend upgrading immediately. > > The Linux kernel 4.9.3 source archive is available for download right > now from kernel.org or via our web portal if you fancy compiling your > own kernel, and it should soon land in the stable software repositories > of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. We urge OS vendors to update to > Linux 4.9 as soon as possible, especially if they're still using Linux > 4.8, which reached end of life last week. Changes for Linux 4.9.4 [7][8]: > "Networking improvements all over, some ARM and ARM64 changes" > > From the appended shortlog, we can notice that the major changes in the > Linux 4.9.4 patch are mostly networking improvements, both for the > drivers stack, which received better support for Realtek Wi-Fi cards and > Mellanox (mlx5) Ethernet adapters, and the networking stack, bringing > various fixes to the IPv4, IPv6, SCTP, and SunRPC protocols, as well as > the Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA) subsystem. > > Numerous ARM and ARM64/AArch64 changes are also present in the Linux > 4.9.4 kernel, along with small bug fixes to the PowerPC (PPC) and x86 > hardware architectures. Other than that, there's a quirk for the > Plantronics BT600 high-fidelity Bluetooth USB adapter, and some minor > fixes to the Intel i915 graphics driver. The Linux kernel 4.9.4 source > archive is now available for download from kernel.org. > > If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution powered by a kernel from the > Linux 4.9 series, we urge you to update to Linux 4.9.4 as soon as > possible, or as soon as the new version lands in the stable software > repositories of the operating system you're currently using as daily > driver. On this occasion, we're also urging OS vendors to move to the > Linux 4.9 kernel series are soon as possible, especially if they're > using Linux 4.8, which reached end of life last week. Changes for Linux 4.9.5 [9][10]: > ### Radeon SMC firmware selection updated for Southern Islands family ### > > From the appended shortlog, we can notice that the biggest part of the > Linux kernel 4.9.5 patch includes updated drivers. This time, the > developers managed to improve the support for open-source Radeon, Intel > i915, Tegra, and VC4 graphics drivers, but there are also updated I2C, > CPUFreq, ACPI, DMA, InfiniBand, Ethernet (Mellanox MLX5), wireless > (Intersil), NVM Express (NVMe), PINCTRL, USB, TTY, and remoteproc > drivers. > > Other than that, Linux kernel 4.9.5 includes various PowerPC (PPC), x86 > (KVM changes mostly), ARM64/AArch64, Btrfs, NFS, OCFS2, and XFS > improvements, along with the usual mm and core kernel noise, tooling > fixes, and an updated networking stack with a fix for the new 802.11 > netlink interface public header. If you're using the Linux 4.9 kernel > series on your GNU/Linux distribution, we recommend updating as soon as > possible to version 4.9.5, which you can download right now from our > website. Changes for Linux 4.9.6 [11]: The release contains a few WLAN, PCI, and x86 fixes. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/711469/ "Linux 4.9.3 " [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/15/68 "Linux 4.9.4" [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/20/161 "Linux 4.9.5" [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/26/35 "Linux 4.9.6" [5] http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-9-3-rolls-out-with-over-200-changes-lots-of-xfs-improvements-511789.shtml [6] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.3 [7] http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-kernel-4-9-4-released-with-various-arm-arm64-and-networking-improvements-511855.shtml [8] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.4 [10] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.5 [11] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6
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