Lately, new kernel releases are pushed like crazy, but we don’t complain, as they always try to improve support for our devices or introduce security and bug fixes.
Just four days after the release of Linux kernel 4.8.8, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on November 19 the availability of the ninth maintenance update in the stable series, which currently powers several rolling distributions, including the popular Arch Linux, Solus, and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Linux kernel 4.8.9 is a fairly normal point release that changes a total of 97 files, with 725 insertions and 399 deletions.
“I’m announcing the release of the 4.8.9 kernel. All users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.8.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4… (read more)
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