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We've been waiting for it, and it's finally here! The first point release of the Linux 4.9 kernel was announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman this past weekend, which means that most modern distros can finally start migrating to the series.
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Yes, we're talking about Linux kernel 4.9.1, the first of many maintenance updates to the Linux 4.9 kernel branch, which is now officially declared stable and ready for production. It's also a major release that changes a total of 103 files, with 813 insertions and 400 deletions, according to the appended shortlog.
Among the changes, we can notice that there are many updated drivers and filesystems. These include for CLK, CPUFreq, Crypto, MD, NVM Express (NVMe), watchdog, Xen, and USB devices, as well as Btrfs, CIFS, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS filesystems. The rest of patch consists of some mm, arch, sound, and core kernel fixes. Full Story |
