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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.18 RC4 with minor changes and fixes compared to previous release. Well Linus is much calm about this release as everything goes in smooth pace and right on schedule. He always annoyed with last day entries but this time by his statement it seems that Linus is not annoyed this time.

According to official announcement, Linus Torvalds state that, "Hey, things are finally calming down. In fact, it looked *really* calm until yesterday, at which point some people clearly realized "hey, I should push my stuff to Linus so that it makes it into -rc4", and then a third of all changes came in the last day, but despite that, rc4 finally looks like things are falling into place, and we'll get to stabilize this release after all." Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's happening in Kernel 3.18 series ?

According to release notes, Linux Kernel 3.18 RC4 comes with over a half fixes in driver segment and almost a third fixes for architecture patches which includes architectures like arm, powerpc, mips and s390. The rest of fixes are made in filesystem especially in XFS filesystem. We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes and Changes Made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC4

- toshiba_acpi: Add Toshiba TECRA A50-A to the alt keymap dmi list.
- USB: quirks: enable device-qualifier quirk for another Elan touchscreen.
- USB: quirks: enable device-qualifier quirk for yet another Elan
touchscreen.
- fix breakage in o2net_send_tcp_msg().
- usb-storage: handle a skipped data phase.
- spi: fsl-dspi: Fix CTAR selection.
- MIPS: Octeon: Make Octeon GPIO IRQ chip CPU hotplug-aware.
- arm64: psci: fix cpu_suspend to check idle state type for index.
- ARM: dts: zynq: Enable PL clocks for Parallella.
- dma: edma: move device registration to platform code.
- soc: versatile: Add terminating entry for realview_soc_of_match.

These are some of the changes and fixes made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC4 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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