Greg Kroah-Hartman has just announced a few minutes ago, December 4, that the third maintenance release of the Linux kernel 3.12 is now available for download.

Linux kernel 3.12.3 is yet another big release that introduces numerous updated drivers, many architecture improvements (AMR, PowerPC, s390, parisc, ARM64, avr32), some fixes for the CIFS and EXT4 filesystems, as well as sound improvements.

"I'm announcing the release of the 3.12.3 kernel. All users of the 3.12 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.12.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.12.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary," Greg Kroah-Hartman said in the official release announcement.

Download Linux kernel 3.12.3 right now from Softpedia. We remind everyone that Linux kernels 3.10.22 LTS and 3.4.72 LTS are also available for download on Softpedia.