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Stable kernel 3.7.10
Greg KH has released stable kernel 3.7.10.
This is the last release in the 3.7 series and all users should be moving
to the 3.8 series now.
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Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 27, 2013 19:17 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] For anyone wondering, this fixes the recent netlink buffer overflow vulnerability.
Mathias Krause (1):
sock_diag: Fix out-of-bounds access to sock_diag_handlers[]
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 27, 2013 20:11 UTC (Wed) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link] So 3.5, 3,6 and now 3.7 are all EOL already? What's planned to be the next 'stable' release? 3.4 is probably getting on a bit now...
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 27, 2013 20:56 UTC (Wed) by freggy (guest, #37477) [Link]
Ubuntu is still maintaining 3.5: https://lwn.net/Articles/539664/
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 27, 2013 22:12 UTC (Wed) by mabshoff (guest, #86444) [Link]
3.0 was released on Jun 7, 2011, 3.4 on May 20th, 2012, so you can expect another long term stable for either 3.9 or 3.10, but GregKH is the only one who can tell you :).
Cheers,
Michael
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 27, 2013 22:29 UTC (Wed) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]
> What's planned to be the next 'stable' release?
All kernel series get 'stable' releases, the next one planned is 3.8.1. ;)
What you probably meant is 'longterm'. While any kernel developer can pick up a kernel series and maintain it as longterm, the stable team (e.g. Greg Kroah-Hartman) only maintains one longterm series per year, which is selected early each fall.
Historically, 3.0 was released July 21 and announced as longterm October 26; while 3.4 was released May 20 and announced as longterm August 20. So the next longterm series will probably be either 3.9 (to be released early May), or more likely 3.10 (to be released about middle of July), but don't expect an announcement prior to August.
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 2:51 UTC (Thu) by apolinsky (subscriber, #19556) [Link]
I am not your state of the art adopter, dealing with kernels supplied by various distributions. Most of my machines have derivatives of the 2.6 kernel, since I use Slackware (12.1,12.2 13.1), Centos (5.9 and 6.3) and Debian Squeeze. Can someone suggest what the advantages of the newer kernels are other than handling later equipment?
Thank you.
Alan
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 3:25 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
I too use old distro kernels. What I believe after reading LWN for years is that the kernel is now very stable with incremental performance improvements. Not to say that work on the kernel has slowed, there are always massive internal restructuring projects, dead and duplicate code removal, fleshing out capabilities for virtualization and namespaces but the days of major changes critical for users seem to be behind us.
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 11:36 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]
You can persue the "human friendly changelogs" published by www.kernelnewbies.org.
Newest kernel:
Older kernels:
Stable kernel 3.7.10 Posted Feb 28, 2013 21:51 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Why, features of course. Newer kernels are much better at energy savings: my AOpen S110 used to whir quite a bit before 3.6, now it is very quiet (seldom goes above 50 C). CONFIG_PREEMPT is now almost flawless -- no random stallings or strange locks. WiFi works like magic. ext4 is cool. Hardware support is always nice. And so on...The kernel can be said to be one of the few select projects where upgrading almost invariably brings more joy than pain. With Free software this is often the case, but not always.
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