Sunday, November 22, 2015
Linus Torvalds announces the release of Kernel 3.17 RC6 with Minor Fixes
Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6 with minor new changes and bug fixes. Well according to him, this release is the last release candidate under 3.17 series and the final or stable Kernel 3.17 will be released by next Sunday. But everything depends on situation whether the developers comes across new and complicated issue then final release will be postponed for sometime.
According to official announcement made by Linus, It's been quiet - enough so that coupled with my upcoming travel, this might just be the last -rc, and final 3.17 might be next weekend. Of course, that still depends on what happens - if we have something scary coming up next week, I may have to delay things. But as it looks right now, we're all good to go". Also, review recent Kernel News to know what has happened in Kernel 3.17 series till yet.
The changelog of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6 explores that this release comes with half of the driver fixes including fixes for gpu, sound, iio, media & usb. It also includes one third of architecture updates for arm, mips and x86 and rest of the changes are included in filesystems such as gfs2, cifs, btrfs and nfs. We have also enlisted some of the bug fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6
- MIPS: OCTEON: make get_system_type() thread-safe.
- GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses.
- USB: EHCI: unlink QHs even after the controller has stopped.
- arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c: fix failure check.
- cifs: remove dead code.
- MIPS: ZBOOT: add missing <linux/string.h> include.
- drm/nouveau: ltc/gf100-: fix cbc issues on certain.
- GFS2: Hash the negative dentry during inode lookup.
- drm: sti: do not iterate over the info frame array.
These are some of the major fixes made in Kernel 3.17 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes, then you must visit their official changelog page.
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According to official announcement made by Linus, It's been quiet - enough so that coupled with my upcoming travel, this might just be the last -rc, and final 3.17 might be next weekend. Of course, that still depends on what happens - if we have something scary coming up next week, I may have to delay things. But as it looks right now, we're all good to go". Also, review recent Kernel News to know what has happened in Kernel 3.17 series till yet.
The changelog of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6 explores that this release comes with half of the driver fixes including fixes for gpu, sound, iio, media & usb. It also includes one third of architecture updates for arm, mips and x86 and rest of the changes are included in filesystems such as gfs2, cifs, btrfs and nfs. We have also enlisted some of the bug fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC6
- MIPS: OCTEON: make get_system_type() thread-safe.
- GFS2: fix d_splice_alias() misuses.
- USB: EHCI: unlink QHs even after the controller has stopped.
- arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c: fix failure check.
- cifs: remove dead code.
- MIPS: ZBOOT: add missing <linux/string.h> include.
- drm/nouveau: ltc/gf100-: fix cbc issues on certain.
- GFS2: Hash the negative dentry during inode lookup.
- drm: sti: do not iterate over the info frame array.
These are some of the major fixes made in Kernel 3.17 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes, then you must visit their official changelog page.
Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software news. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.
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