After announcing the release of Linux kernel 4.8.12, renowned kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman informed us about the availability of the thirty-sixth maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel series.
The Linux 4.4 LTS branch is currently used in various long-term supported operating systems, including Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Linux Mint 18 “Sarah,” as well as the upcoming Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” release, and in rock-solid and widely-used server-oriented GNU/Linux distributions like Alpine Linux. Linux kernel 4.4.36 LTS is here to change a total of 32 files, with 236 insertions and only 94 deletions.
“I’m announcing the release of the 4.4.36 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”
PA-RISC and x86 improvements, Radeon driver enhancements
Looking at the appended shortlog and the diff since last week’s Linux kernel 4.4.35 LTS maintenance update, we can notice that the Linux 4.4.36 LTS kernel brings small improvements to the PA-RISC, x86, and Tile hardware architectures, a fix for the NFS file system to hide the array-bounds warning, an updated networking stack with minor improvements to wireless support, and an AppArmor-related change.
Of course, there are also updated drivers, this time for IOMMU, USB, SCSI, and GPU devices. The Radeon driver has been updated to ensure that the vertical blank interrupt is enabled on DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) transition to on. Study the appended shortlog (link above) for more details, and in the meantime, download the Linux kernel 4.4.36 LTS source archive right now from kernel.org.
