Linux 4.10.7 released with improvements to AMDGPU and networking

Another release is coming, another release of the famous kernel. Specifically, it was Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds' right-hand man, who announced that this new updated version of the kernel is available. So everyone can enjoy it if they update their kernel to this seventh update (Linux 4.10.7) maintenance for branch 4.10, along with Linux 4.4.59 LTS and 4.9.19 LTS, as well as the latest stable branch that you can find at kernel.org.

The surprising thing about this version is that it has arrived soon, too soon, since it only took three days to appear after the release of Linux 4.10.6, the most immediate update that precedes it. Despite the short time that it has been had, it has great changes with the added patches. A total of 128 files have been modified, with 1470 code insertions and 845 obsolete code deletions.

Among the improvements is the repair of bugs found, as well as major improvements in the drivers, especially in relation to the network stack, sound stack and file systems, without forgetting the graphics. All these improvements are available in Git, in case you want to take a look or download them, as Greg has made clear (you already know that the main branch is Linus who is in charge of announcing it and this type of maintenance branches is Greg who does it ... ) in his announcement of this new version so complete in record time.

Among the important improvements is an update for the drivers free graphics AMDGPU, for the signature Radeon cards. In addition to other patches that affect the beep code, CLK, CPUfreq, CPUidle, crypto, DAX, I / O devices, memory controller, and networks (Ethernet, amd-xgbe, and wireless such as Broadcom, Mellanox, Atheros, Marvell,…), and there have also been improvements for ext4 and jbd2, as well as for USB, SCSI, Xen, ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, x86, etc.