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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 with several fixes which was made in previous release candidates of Kernel 3.17 series. Well Linus claims that this release is scheduled to release ont week early but because of some urgent changes it get delayed by one week.

According to official announcement made by Linus, Linux Kernel 3.17 release includes mostly fixes for driver like i915, nouveau, ethernet, scsi and sound along with some networking fixes. Well if you compare this release with previous one then you won't find anything much new because it only includes minor fixes. Also, review recent Kernel News to know what changes made in Kernel 3.17 series till yet ?

The Linus Torvalds also state that, he will not going to merge the development of Kernel 3.18 in next week because a week after that he will be attending this year's LinuxCon conference which is going to happen in Europe. For Kernel enthusiasts, he state that if you want to submit your patches then you can do that but he will be processing your submits for at least a week. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

- ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight

change request.

- i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers.

- MAINTAINERS: change git URL for mpc5xxx tree.

- i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization.

- [SCSI] cxgb4i: avoid holding mutex in interrupt context.

- cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type.

- ASoC: rt286: Correct default value.

- ASoC: rt286: Fix sync function.

- MAINTAINERS: add atmel audio alsa driver maintainer entry.

- drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend.

- gro: fix aggregation for skb using frag_list.

- ipv6: remove rt6i_genid.

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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