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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC3 with minor improvements and fixes. As you know that few days back Kernel Summit was held but instead of this summit, the next release candidate is released by Linus Torvalds. This release is smaller than RC2 because last week there was Kernel Summit and also Linux celebrates 23 years of completion so lot of programmers were busy in previous week.

According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds, Linux Kernel 3.17 RC3 is not much larger then RC2 release. He annotate in his official mailing list that "I'm back to the usual Sunday release schedule, and -rc3 is out there now. As expected, it is larger than rc2, since people are clearly getting back from their Kernel Summit travels etc. But happily, it's not *much* larger than rc2 was, and there's nothing particularly odd going on, so I'm going to just ignore the whole "it's summer" argument, and hope that things are just going that well". You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

- spi/rockchip: fixup incorrect dma direction setting.

- xtensa: fix address checks in dma_{alloc,free}_coherent.

- drm/radeon: handle broken disabled rb mask gracefully (6xx/7xx) (v2).

- vexpress/spc: fix a build warning on array bounds.

- radeon: Test for PCI root bus before assuming bus->self.

- usb: dbgp gadget: fix use after free in dbgp_unbind().

- Btrfs: device_list_add() should not update list when mounted.

- intel_pstate: Turn per cpu printk into pr_debug.

- thunderbolt: Clear hops before overwriting.

- ARM: 8127/1: module: add support for R_ARM_TARGET1 relocations.

- drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c: re-add support for devices without irq specified.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC3 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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