Linux Kernel 4.9.3 Rolls Out with over 200 Changes, Lots of XFS Improvements

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

You won’t believe this, but Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today, January 12, 2017, the release of the third maintenance update to the Linux 4.9 kernel stable series, just three days after the release of Linux kernel 4.9.2.

From the appended shortlog, it looks like there are a total of 201 files changed in this third point release of Linux kernel 4.9, with 1929 insertions and 945 deletions, so we can only think that all these patches were out for a while now, but they didn’t make it into the mainline kernel because of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. However, they are more than welcome and are really great work.

“I’m announcing the release of the 4.9.3 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git… (read more)

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