Linux kernel developer Jiri Slaby has announced the release of the sixty-second maintenance update for the long-term supported Linux 3.12 kernel series, which will receive support until 2017 because of SUSE Enterprise Linux.
Linux kernel 3.12.62 LTS is a modest update, and looking at the diff from the previous maintenance release, version 3.12.61, we can notice that it changes a total of 96 files, with 1,213 insertions and 1,053 deletions. Among the modifications, we can notice lots of fixes for the SPARC hardware architecture, but there are various other improvements to the ARM, MIPS, PA-RISC, and x86 instruction set architectures.
Additionally, there are multiple updated drivers implemented in the Linux 3.12.62 LTS kernel, in particular for crypto, EDAC, InfiniBand, Macintosh, HID, networking (Ethernet Atheros and QLogic, Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), and mac80211), PCI, SCSI, and USB…. (read more)
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