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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 which is the sixth release candidate under stable Kernel 3.16 series. Well this is another maintenance release which includes fixes of previous release candidates. Also, review recent RC releases of Kernel 3.16 series.

According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds, it is officially confirmed the Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 comes with minor fixes. Well Linus Torvalds is quite unhappy with this release because of its size. He made an unpleasant statement as "Week by week, we're getting to what is supposed to be the last rc's, but quite frankly, things aren't calming down the way they are supposed to".

The previous released Kernel 3.16 RC5 was quite bigger than RC 4 but RC6 is much smaller than all previous release candidates till yet. Linus consider this release as a trivial release because it much smaller than earlier ones. The RC6 release also includes changes in drivers, filesystems including nfs fixes, xfs, fuse, gfs2 and btrfs. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

In his official mailing list, he made his disappointment by stating, "Anyway, rc6 still isn't all *that* big, so I'm not exactly worried, but I am getting to the point where I'm going to start calling people names and shouting at you if you send me stuff that isn't appropriate for the late rc releases. Which is not to say that people did: while rc6 is bigger than I wished for, I don't think there's too much obviously frivolous in there. But I'll be keepign an eye out, and I'll be starting to get grumpy (or grumpiER) if I notice that peopel aren't being serious about trying to calm things down".

List of Bug Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6

- ALSA: hda - Add new GPU codec ID 0x10de0070 to snd-hda.
- usb: chipidea: udc: Disable auto ZLP generation on ep0.
- openvswitch: Use exact lookup for flow_get and flow_del.
- farsync: fix invalid memory accesses in fst_add_one() and fst_init_card().
- GRE: enable offloads for GRE.
- fuse: ignore entry-timeout on LOOKUP_REVAL.
- appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb.
- efi/arm64: efistub: remove local copy of linux_banner.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of changes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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