Immediately after announcing on the 20th of November 2016 the release of Linux kernel 3.2.84 LTS, maintainer Ben Hutchings also informed the community about the availability of the Linux 3.16.39 LTS kernel update.
Just like Linux kernel 3.2.84 LTS, the Linux kernel 3.16.39 LTS release arrives exactly one month after the previous maintenance update, namely Linux kernel 3.16.38 LTS, which was patched against the “Dirty COW” vulnerability. And it now looks like the long-term supported Linux 3.16 kernel series just got a massive patch that changes a total of 420 files, with 3506 insertions and 1566 deletions.
“I’m announcing the release of the 3.16.39 kernel. All users of the 3.16 kernel series should upgrade,” said Ben Hutchings. “The updated 3.16.y git tree can be found at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-sta… (read more)
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