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Greg Kroah Hartman officially announces the release of stable Linux Kernel 3.17.1 with new features and several fixes of various release candidates. Well this is the most latest and advanced Kernel version which is available for all Linux Distros. As you know that two weeks earlier Linus announces the release of 3.17 and now Greg provides all the features of 3.17 series in Kernel 3.17.1 release.

According to official announcement by Greg, he state that all the users can upgrade their kernel version to 3.17 series. In his mailing list he says, "I'm announcing the release of the 3.17.1 kernel. All users of the 3.17 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.17.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.17.y and 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".

- USB: cp210x: add support for Seluxit USB dongle.

- serial: 8250: Add Quark X1000 to 8250_pci.c.

- crypto: caam - fix addressing of struct member.

- Revert "usb: gadget: composite: dequeue cdev->req before free it in composite_dev_cleanup".

- usb: musb: dsps: kill OTG timer on suspend.

- net: systemport: fix bcm_sysport_insert_tsb().

- libata: Un-break ATA blacklist.

- team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work.

- USB: serial: cp210x: added Ketra N1 wireless interface support.

- hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_send().

- USB: Add device quirk for ASUS T100 Base Station keyboard.

- sctp: handle association restarts when the socket is closed.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17.1 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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