Linux Kernel 4.11.2 Has Many F2FS and CIFS Improvements, Lots of Updated Drivers

Greg Kroah-Hartman was proud to announce the release of the second maintenance update to the Linux 4.11 kernel series, Linux 4.11.2, which is now considered the latest stable kernel that's available for GNU/Linux distributions.

Linux kernel 4.11.2 is here only one week after the first point release in the new stable series, and it's a major update changing a total of 131 files, with 1402 insertions and 766 deletions, according to the appended shortlog. Greg Kroah-Hartman also released new maintenance updates for the Linux 4.10, 4.9, 4.4, and 3.18 kernel series, for which we have a separate article on the website.

"I'm announcing the release of the 4.11.2 kernel. All users of the 4.11 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.11.y git tree c...