Download and install Linux Kernel 4.14-rc3 on Ubuntu Linux Systems. Kernel 4.14-rc3 has been released. Announcing the release of Linux 4.14-rc3, Linus Torvalds wrote:
“So 4.14 continues to be a somewhat painful release, and I’m starting to at least partly blame the fact that it’s meant to be an LTS release.
The last LTS release we had (4.9) resulted in one of the biggest kernel releases we ever had because everybody wanted in; the 4.14 release doesn’t seem to be as large, but it does seem to result in some late work happening because people want to prep for 4.14, knowing it will be LTS.
But who knows. Some of this may just be pure coincidence too. But I already know of two more pull requests that are still pending that will also probably want to be pushed into 4.14. Anyway, on to the actual rc3 changes.. Most of them are the normal small fixes, but a few things do stand out:
some x86 FPU state handling fixes
fixed some crypto problems in our internal key handling
some smp/hotplug cleanups
and all of them are bigger than I would have wished for at this stage, but all of them had fine reasons for going in now. They all had one thing in common, in that they also came with cleanups in order to fix the underlying problem (so often the actual commit that _fixes_ it is pretty small, but there’s a series of cleanups that makes that fix possible).
The two issues that I know as potentially still pending are some of the same kind: a writeback fix and some watchdog fixes, both with the majority being cleanups in order to fix things. Anyway, this all has the common thread that I’d have loved to get that code during the merge window as “obviously good changes”, but I’m not thrilled to get it during the rc stages.
Oh well. Enough of the “Woe is me”.
Things don’t actually look *bad*. Yes, it’s more changes than I would have wished for at this stage, but at the same time none of it looks like it’s really fundamentally problematic for the 4.14 release. Most of the x86 FPU state cleanups had already been around for a while just because they were needed cleanup, for example, it’s just that the bug fixes made them get merged at a less than optimal time.
The various changes do end up making the diffstat look somewhat unusual: driver fixes that usually dominate are just a quarter of the haul this rc around, with arch fixes (almost all of which are x86) are another quarter. The rest is core kernel (much of it the smp/hotplug updates), security (the key handling changes) and tooling (much of it perf, but also more selftests). Some fs fixes (btrfs and xfs, some
misc) accounts for the rest.
It’s still early enough in the rc release that I don’t know if this will impact timing. Right now it still feels like we’re fine with the usual schedule (ie rc7 being the last rc), but we’ll just have to see how this release cycle continues.
Do go out and test, please.”
Install Kernel 4.14 RC3
On 32 Bit Systems
Run the following commands in terminal to install Kernel 4.14 RC3 on 32 Bit Systems:
sudo apt-get update
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc3_4.14.0-041400rc3.201710011930_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc3-generic_4.14.0-041400rc3.201710011930_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc3-lowlatency_4.14.0-041400rc3.201710011930_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.14*.deb linux-image-4.14*.deb
sudo reboot
On 32 Bit Systems
Run the following commands in terminal to install Kernel 4.14 RC3 on 64 Bit Systems:
sudo apt-get update
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc3_4.14.0-041400rc3.201710011930_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc3-generic_4.14.0-041400rc3.201710011930_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc3-lowlatency_4.14.0-041400rc3.201710011930_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.14*.deb linux-image-4.14*.deb
sudo reboot
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