Linux Kernel 3.12.70 Is a Big Patch with over 220 Improvements, Security Fixes

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Jiri Slaby is announcing the release of the 70th maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 3.12 kernel series, which will be supported for a few more months in 2017.

Coming approximately one a half months after the release of Linux kernel 3.12.69 LTS, the Linux 3.12.70 LTS kernel is a big patch that brings numerous improvements across several of the supported drivers, filesystems, and architectures. According to the appended shortlog, it changes a total of 222 files, with 1973 insertions and 783 deletions, so updating is recommended for all users.

“I’m announcing the release of the 3.12.70 kernel. All users of the 3.12 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.12.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.12.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/… (read more)
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