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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6 with minor changes and fixes. Well Linus is quite happy regarding the slow and steady progress of Kernel 3.18 but recently Kernel developers encounter one big issue in regression which was reported by Dave Jones and haven't solved by developers.

According to official announcement, Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6 comes with most of the changes which are small regressions along with smattering of stable patches. Apart from this, this RC release includes about half of driver fixes including fixes for drivers for networking, sound, pci and inifiniband along with few architecture updates and rest includes networking code. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.18 and 3.17 branches ?

Other miscellaneous fixes includes fixes for filesystem, documentation and scheduler. Linus specifically focused on the issue raised by Dave by saying that, "Really not a whole lot of code changed, and if it wasn't for the pending trouble from DaveJ, I'd probably be perfectly happy. Let's see how that all unfolds, but in the meantime, the more testing this can get, the better". 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 Bugfixes made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6

- MIPS: oprofile: Fix backtrace on 64-bit kernel.
- ieee802154: fix error handling in ieee802154fake_probe().
- can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak on disconnect.
- ASoC: samsung: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for Snow.
- sched/numa: Fix out of bounds read in sched_init_numa().
- devicetree: vendor-prefixes.txt: fix whitespace.
- brcmfmac: fix conversion of channel width 20MHZ_NOHT.
- isofs: avoid unused function warning.
- ASoC: es8328-i2c: Fix i2c_device_id name field in es8328_id.
- srp-target: Retry when QP creation fails with ENOMEM.
- ath9k: fix regression in bssidmask calculation.
- x86, microcode: Update BSPs microcode on resume.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.18 RC6 release. If you wish to check out complete list of bugfixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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