Looking at the appended shortlogs for each kernel release, we can notice that they both include pretty much the same changes. For example, there are various improvements to the support for the ARM, MIPS, PowerPC (PPC), ARC, FR-V, PA-RISC, s390, SH, TILE, SPARC, Xtensa, and x86 hardware architectures, as well as to the Btrfs, F2FS, Hugetlbfs, and Configfs filesystems. Besides the usual core kernel and mm changes, both Linux 4.11.7 and 4.9.34 LTS kernels updated numerous drivers, in particular the AMDGPU, Intel i915, USB, TTY, MFD, InfiniBand, CPUFreq, PHY, and Virtio ones. The networking stack also received improvements to the mac80211 wireless framework and the IPv6 implementation. An SELinux fix is also available in Linux kernel 4.11.7.
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.