For the tech-savvy users, we can report today that Linux kernel 3.18.26 LTS brings updates to the networking stack, especially for things like IPv6, IPv4, IrDA, Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS), Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), DECnet, and Bluetooth, improvements to the Btrfs, NFS, Ceph, JBD2, EXT4, and OCFS2 filesystems, a HDA HDMI sound patch, a few security fixes, as well as updated network, FireWire and USB drivers.
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