Download Linux Kernel 4.7 on Ubuntu. Linux Kernel 4.7 is released with support for Radeon RX 480 GPU (AMD). It also brings various fixes for the network drivers and some Intel Kabylake GPU fixes.
The release statement says:
So, after a slight delay due to my travels, I’m back, and 4.7 is out. Despite it being two weeks since rc7, the final patch wasn’t all that big, and much of it is trivial one- and few-liners. There’s a couple of network drivers that got a bit more loving. Appended is the shortlog since rc7 for people who care: it’s fairly spread out, with networking and some Intel Kabylake GPU fixes being the most noticeable ones. But there’s random small noise spread all over. And obviously, this means that the merge window for 4.8 is open.Judging by the linux-next contents, that’s going to be a bigger release than the current one (4.7 really was fairly calm, I blame at least partly summer in the northern hemisphere).
Some of the changes and fixes are:
- posix_cpu_timer: Exit early when process has been reaped
- ppp: defer netns reference release for ppp channel
- perf/x86: Fix bogus kernel printk, again
- cpu/hotplug: Keep enough storage space if SMP=n to avoid array out of bounds scribble
- sched/core: Correct off by one bug in load migration calculation
- ALSA: ctl: Stop notification after disconnection
- ALSA: pcm: Free chmap at PCM free callback, too
- ARM: tegra: beaver: Allow SD card voltage to be changed
- ALSA: usb-audio: Fix quirks code is not called
- x86/cpu: Fix duplicated X86_BUG(9) macro
- tcp: enable per-socket rate limiting of all ‘challenge acks’
Download Kernel 4.7
Once the Kernel is installed, run the commands given below to update GRUB and reboot the system. While rebooting the computer, select the newly released Kernel in GRUB :
$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo reboot