Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.8.10 on Ubuntu. Here’s how to install Linux Kernel 4.8.10 on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives. Kernel 4.8.10 is released with networking fixes and an updated Ethernet drivers. It also brings various changes for SPARC64 hardware architecture. For ipv4, it will use new_gw for redirect neigh lookup.
The newly released Kernel 4.8.10 can now handle extremely large kernel TSB range flushes sanely. For SPARC64, it can fix illegal relative branches in hypervisor patched TLB code and hypervisor patched TLB cross-call code. It also updates a fix instruction count in comment for __hypervisor_flush_tlb_pending..
Announcing the release of the Kernel 4.8.10, Greg said all users of the 4.8 kernel series must upgrade. 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-4.8.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
Install Linux Kernel 4.8.10
On 32-Bit Systems
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Linux Kernel 4.8.10 on 32 Bit Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_all.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_i386.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-image-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.8.10*.deb linux-image-4.8.10*.deb
$ sudo reboot
On 64-Bit Systems
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Linux Kernel 4.8.10 on 64 Bit Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_all.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-headers-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_amd64.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8.10/linux-image-4.8.10-040810-generic_4.8.10-040810.201611210531_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.8.10*.deb linux-image-4.8.10*.deb
$ sudo reboot