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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6 with new changes and minor fixes. Well according to changelog, it is confirmed that this release candidate is much smaller than RC5 release as it doesn't contain much changes particularly scary ones as we have found in RC5 release. He also made an announcement that next week he will announce Kernel 3.19 RC7 version and then final version will be available in next two weeks.

According to official announcement, Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6 comes with 70% driver changes in which a Dell laptop platform driver revert being is the biggest single patch, but apart from that some networking, gpu, gpio and sound drivers are also received minor fixes. It also includes 14% architecture updates in which x86 and arm updates are the biggest ones. We have also enlisted some of the fixes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in software world ?

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.19 RC6

- gpio: crystalcove: use handle_nested_irq.
- can: kvaser_usb: Don't free packets when tight on URBs.
- can: kvaser_usb: Reset all URB tx contexts upon channel close.
- fix deadlock in cifs_ioctl_clone().
- PCI: Add flag for devices where we can't use bus reset.
- PCI: Mark Atheros AR93xx to avoid bus reset.
- ata: pata_at91: depend on !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM.
- x86/tsc: Change Fast TSC calibration failed from error to info.
- bus: mvebu-mbus: fix support of MBus window 13.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.19 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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