Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced today, March 26, the immediate availability for download of the third maintenance release for Linux 3.19 kernel, along with Linux kernels 3.14.37 LTS and 3.10.73 LTS. Additionally, Linux kernel 3.18.10 LTS was also unveiled a couple days ago.

All these new point releases of Linux kernel include numerous improvements, bug fixes, and updated drivers. According to the attached shortlog, the ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, s390, SPARC, and x86 architectures received various enhancements and many issues have been fixed.

“I'm announcing the release of the 3.19.3 kernel. All users of the 3.19 kernel series must upgrade,” says Greg Kroah-Hartman in the mailing list announcement. “The updated 3.19.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.19.y”

Other changes include fixes to the FUSE and NILFS2 file systems, networking (IPv6, IPv4, netfilter) improvements, some sound enhancements, as well as numerous updated drivers, especially for Radeon and Intel graphics cards. More details can be found in the official changelog.

As usual, the source code of the Linux kernel 3.19.3, Linux kernel 3.14.37 LTS, Linux kernel 3.10.73 LTS, and Linux kernel 3.18.10 LTS can be downloaded right now via Softpedia or directly from the kernel.org website. Normal users should wait for these kernel updates to be updated in the main software repositories of their distributions.