All users of the 4.0 kernel branch must update

Jun 6, 2015 18:00 GMT  ·  By

The fifth maintenance release of Linux kernel 4.0 has arrived today, June 6, as announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman, a renowned kernel developer, on Linux kernel's official mailing lists.

The changelog of Linux kernel 4.0.5 is quite huge, and it would appear that it adds improvements to several architectures, including ARM, x86, MIPS, PowerPC, s390, ARM64, and PA-RISC, to the Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, OverlayFS, jbd2, Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS), and NFS file systems, as well as some minor networking and sound fixes.

Additionally, Linux kernel 4.0.5 brings numerous updated drivers, especially for ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), ATA, CLK, General-purpose input/output (GPIO), GPU (mostly Radeon), hwmon, iiO, HID, InfiniBand, MD, MMC, MTD, Wireless, SCSI, TTY, USB, Xen, and input/output memory management unit (IOMMU).

"I'm announcing the release of the 4.0.5 kernel. All users of the 4.0 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 4.0.y git tree 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 4.0 kernel series must update as soon as possible

As expected, Greg Kroah-Hartman urges all users of the 4.0 kernel series to upgrade to the newly released Linux 4.0.5 kernel as soon as possible, or more precisely, as soon as the update arrives in the official software repositories of their favorite distributions.

Linux OS vendors and experienced users who know how to compile a kernel can download the Linux kernel 4.0.5 sources right now via Softpedia or  from the kernel.org website. In related news, we inform you that Linux kernels 3.14.44 LTS and 3.10.80 LTS have been released today as well.