Linux Kernel 4.2.6 Officially Released, Has Dozens of Updated Drivers | Linux Today

Linux Kernel 4.2.6 Officially Released, Has Dozens of Updated Drivers

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Marius Nestor
Nov 9, 2015

According to the diff from Linux kernel 4.2.5, the new maintenance release is here to add various improvements to the ARM, ARM64, PowerPC (PPC), and x86 hardware architectures, fix several issues in the Btrfs and OverlayFS filesystems, repair a couple of networking problems, mostly related to mac80211 and Netfilter, as well as to add a few mm and sound enhancements.

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Marius Nestor

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