14 DAY TRIAL // Sasha Levin has announced the immediate availability for download and update of the Linux kernel 3.18.11 LTS (Long Term Support), a release that brings a great number of bugfixes, updated drivers, and other important improvements to the most advanced LTS version of the Linux kernel.
According to the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 3.18.11 LTS comes with many improvements to several architectures, including ARM, ARM64, s390, PowerPC, x86, MicroBlaze, and SPARC, updates to the NILFS2 and FUSE file systems, sound improvements, as well as networking fixes, especially for IPv4 and IPv6.
“I'm announcing the release of the 3.18.11 kernel. All users of the 3.18 kernel series must upgrade,” says Sasha Levin. “The updated 3.18.y git tree can be be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary”
Of course, numerous drivers have been fixed and other added in the Linux kernel 3.18.11 LTS update, especially for Radeon (r100, r600) GPUs, I2C, iSCSI, SCSI, PCI, RTC, SPI, TTY, USB, and Xen. While you can download the Linux kernel 3.18.11 LTS sources right now from Softpedia, but it is recommended to wait for the update to appear in the default software channels of your distribution.