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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.18 RC5 with new changes and fixes. Well this release candidate is much bigger than RC4 release. He also mentioned that there are still some serious issues which we have to look into before the final release of Kernel 3.18. We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post.

After the calm release of Kernel 3.18 RC4, now Linus announces the release of Kernel 3.18 RC5 and state "We had a very calm -rc4, and I wish I could say that things continued to calm down, but...  Yeah, rc5 is clearly bigger than rc4 was. Oh well". He also says that RC4 was unusally smaller than this release. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what has happened in 3.18 series ?

The new changes of Kernel 3.18 RC5 aren't much odd or scary as it includes about 55% driver fixes including fixes for networking, gpu, cypto, thermal and sound drivers. It includes 15% arch updates which includes updated xtensa, x86, arm[64], parsic and sparc. Apart from this, other fixes includes fixes for networking, filesystem, VM, documentation and tracing updates. The overall changes are very small and about one third of stable Kernel release. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC5

- cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Fix arguments in clock failure error message.
- ACPI / blacklist: blacklist Win8 OSI for Dell Vostro 3546.
- HID: usbhid: enable always-poll quirk for Elan Touchscreen 0103.
- drm/gk20a/fb: fix setting of large page size bit.
- sparc32: Implement xchg and atomic_xchg using ATOMIC_HASH locks.
- ARM: mvebu: armada xp: Generalize use of i2c quirk.
- net: dsa: slave: Fix autoneg for phys on switch MDIO bus.
- NFS: SEEK is an NFS v4.2 feature.
- ahci: fix AHCI parameters not taken into account.
- hwmon: (fam15h_power) Fix NB device ID for F16h M30h.
- thermal: imx: correct driver load sequence for cpu cooling.
- thermal: exynos: use correct offset for TMU_CONTROL register on Exynos5260.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC5 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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