Linux Kernel 4.7.5 Released with Numerous ARM and Networking Improvements

Posted by hanuca on Sep 25, 2016 6:47 PM EDT
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The fifth maintenance update to the Linux 4.7 kernel series, which is currently the most advanced, secure and stable kernel branch you can get for your GNU/Linux operating system, has been announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Linux kernel 4.7.5 is here only ten days after the release of the previous maintenance version, namely Linux kernel 4.7.4, and it's a big update that changes a total of 213 files, with 1774 insertions and 971 deletions, which tells us that the kernel developers and hackers had a pretty busy week patching all sorts of bugs and security issues, as well as to add various, much-needed improvements.

Linux kernel 4.7.5 adds numerous improvements to the ARM, PowerPC (PPC), x86, SH, s390, PA-RISC, ARM64, OpenRISC, MIPS, MicroBlaze, M32R, ARC, Alpha, Blackfin, IA64, AVR32, CRIS, Hexagon, MetaG, MN10300, Nios II, SPARC, and FR-V hardware architectures, and updates the networking stack with various changes to things like IPv4, IPv6, IrDA, KCM, SCTP, SunRPC, Wireless, Bridge, Packet Scheduler, and TIPC.

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