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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of third release candidate under Kernel 3.16 series. On last sunday, he announced the release of Kernel 3.16 RC2 with several bug fixes and improvements. Also, review other recent Kernel News to know what changes made in recent releases ?

According to official announcement, Linus state that Linux Kernel 3.16 RC3 includes less driver updates than earlier candidates and whatever driver updates it includes are minor ones because Greg K Hartman did not sent his USB/staging changes by the end of this week, so this release's driver changes primarily includes gpu, networking and sound changes.

There are several miscellaneous architecture updates of mips, powerpc, x86, arm and various random other updates are made in this release. Linus also announces that Kernel 3.16 RC3 comes with file system updates such as aio, nfs and ocfs2 along with small batch of mm fixes from Andrew and some networking stuff.

This release mainly contains minor changes with few bug fixes. The most highlighted feature of Linux Kernel 3.16 RC3 release is its capability of unbreaking of direct block device read accesses on 32-bit targets and some x86 vdso regression fixes which earlier caused the problem. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

- Fix 32-bit regression in block device read(2).

- ARM: EXYNOS: fix pm code to check for cortex A9 rather than the SoC.

- nmi: provide the option to issue an NMI back trace to every cpu but current.

- kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection.

- ia64: arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h needs personality.h.

- drm/exynos: disable unused windows on apply.

- efi-pstore: Fix an overflow on 32-bit builds.

- NFS check the return of nfs4_negotiate_security in nfs4_submount.

- NFS Return -EPERM if no supported or matching SECINFO flavor.

- NFSv4: test SECINFO RPC_AUTH_GSS pseudoflavors for support.

- hwmon: (w83l786ng) Report correct minimum fan speed.

- fs/cifs: fix regression in cifs_create_mf_symlink().

- net: huawei_cdc_ncm: increase command buffer size.

- efi: Fix compiler warnings (unused, const, type).

- powerpc/kmemleak: Do not scan the DART table.

These are some of the major bug fixes made in Linux Kernel 3.16 RC3 release. If you want to check out detailed list of all bug fixes then you should visit their official changelog page.

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