Linux kernel 4.2.8 is the eighth and last maintenance release in the series, but not an unnoticed one, as it adds quite an impressive amount of changes, which varies from updated drivers, especially for things like Ethernet, Firewire, USB, PCI, and PHY, improvements to the Btrfs, EXT4, JBD2, and NFS filesystems, to numerous networking updates, mostly for things like IPv6, IPv4, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), and scheduler, and some sound drivers enhancements.