We can notice that Linux kernel 3.2.84 LTS is a major update that changes a total of 209 files, with 1277 insertions and 730 deletions. And it looks like there’s something for everyone, starting with arch updates for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, CRIS, FR-V, Hexagon, IA-64, M32R, MicroBlaze, MIPS, MN10300, OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, s390, SH, SPARC, and x86. Then there are filesystem improvements for 9p, Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS), Btrfs, Ceph, CIFS, eCryptfs, EXOFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, FAT, FUSE, GFS2, HFS, HFS+, HostFS, High Performance File System (HPFS), HugeTLBfs, JFFS2, JFS, LogFS, NCPFS, NFS, NILFS2, NTFS, OCFS2, OMFS, RAMFS, ReiserFS, sysfs, UBIFS (UBI File System), UDF, UFS, and XFS. The networking stack was updated as well with multiple IPv4, Bluetooth, IPv6, IrDA, L2TP, Netfilter, Netlabel, SunRPC, and XFRM changes.
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