Linux Kernel 3.18.41 LTS Has ARC and Networking Changes, Updated Drivers

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Today, September 5, 2016, a new version of the long-term supported Linux 3.18 kernel series arrived as build 3.18.41, bringing various updated drivers and other small improvements.

No official announcement has been made at the moment of writing this article, but we’ve managed to get our hands on the Git changelog to tell you a little bit about the changes implemented in the Linux 3.18.41 LTS release, which updates a total of 47 files, with 254 insertions and 91 deletions.

Judging by the statistics mentioned above, Linux kernel 3.18.41 LTS is a relatively small maintenance update that brings multiple improvements to the ARC hardware architectures, as well as a few minor fixes to the PA-RISC and PowerPC (PPC) ones, a bugfix for the UBIFS file system, and an updated networking stack with IPv4 and mac80211 changes.

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