Linux kernel 3.12.48 LTS is a fairly normal release that brings various networking improvements, especially for the IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, but also for things like Netfilter, Netlink, Transparent Inter-process Communication (TIPC), RDS, and Bridge, fixes issues with the Common Internet File System (CIFS), and updated several drivers, including for SCSI, ISDN, GPU, MD, MFD, and networking.