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Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of forth release candidate of Linux Kernel 3.17 with new changes and minor fixes since previous 3.17 RC3 release. Well this candidate is not major one as it includes few fixes for architecture, drivers and added commentary for source codes.

According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds, he comment that "the previous week was nice and calm". He says, "For a short while there, this week was really nice and calm, but that was mostly because the "linux-foundation.org" entry fell off the DNS universe, and my mailbox got very quiet for a few hours.  The rest of the week looked pretty normal".

Well the Linux Kernel 3.17 RC4 doesn't include any big changes rather than some commentary addition in source code. Linus comment about this as "There is nothing particularly big or scary going on - we had a quick scare about a stupid compat layer bug, but it seems to have been just a false positive and resulted in some added commentary rather than any real code changes". Also, review recent Linux Kernel News to know what's new in recent candidate releases ?

Like usual release candidates, Kernel 3.17 RC4 also includes normal updates for architecture and drivers, but more changes are included under fs/ than other sections. These large number of changes included under fs/ because late f2fs update which Linus decided that "he couldn't bothered to get too upset about, most of it being pretty clear-cut fixes with just a few cleanups mixed in".

Finally, in the conclusion Linus state that "Let's hope it all stays calm. I do note that neither Greg nor Davem ended up sending me anything for rc4, which is probably the _real_ reason why it's pretty calm and small". Some of the fixes of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC4 are enlisted below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC4

- get rid of propagate_umount() mistakenly treating slaves as busy.
- fix EBUSY on umount() from MNT_SHRINKABLE.
- Documentation: gpio: documentation for optional getters functions.
- ufs: fix deadlocks introduced by sb mutex merge.
- Export sync_filesystem() for modular ->remount_fs() use.
- ASoC: rt5677: correct mismatch widget name.
- platform/x86: toshiba: re-enable acpi hotkeys after suspend to disk.
- mtd: nand: fix DocBook warnings on nand_sdr_timings doc.
- mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: check return code for get_chip().
- arm64: Add brackets around user_stack_pointer().

These are some of the fixes which are made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC4 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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