Linux Kernels 4.10.16, 4.9.28 LTS and 4.4.68 LTS Are Out Now with Many Changes | Linux Today

Linux Kernels 4.10.16, 4.9.28 LTS and 4.4.68 LTS Are Out Now with Many Changes

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Marius Nestor
May 14, 2017

Among the things that got improved in these new point releases of the Linux 4.10, 4.9 and 4.4 kernel series, we can mention the ARM, ARM64 (AArch64), PowerPC (PPC), x86, SPARC, and MIPS architectures, as well as the 9p and F2FS filesystems, updated networking (IPv4, IPv6, Open vSwitch) and sound (Intel HDA) stacks, and lots of updated drivers for wireless (Intel iwlwifi, Marvell mwifiex, Broadcom brcm80211), power, SCSI, SPI, USB, Xen, and TTY.

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Marius Nestor

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