Kernel 4.0.5 released with architecture updates

Greg Kroah-Hartman recently announced the release of Linux Kernel 4.0.5, which has been tagged the most advanced and stable kernel version currently available. Linux kernel 4.0.5 brings architecture updates for ARM, x86, MIPS, PowerPC, s390, ARM64, and PA-RISC, filesystem specific optimizations for Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, OverlayFS, jbd2, Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS), and NFS and updated drivers, among others.

Linux Kernel 4.0.5 changelog

sd: Disable support for 256 byte/sector disks

fix race when unfreezing sync_action

UBI: block: Add missing cache flushes

drm/amdkfd: Don’t report local memory size

dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices

Revert “drm/radeon: only mark audio as connected if the monitor supports it (v3)”

iwlwifi: mvm: Free fw_status after use to avoid memory leak

rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix kernel deadlock

See announcement for full release

Install Kernel 4.0.5 on Ubuntu OS

32bit OS

cd /tmp

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_all.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_i386.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-image-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.0*.deb linux-image-4.0*.deb

sudo reboot

64bit OS

cd /tmp

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_all.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-headers-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_amd64.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.0.5-wily/linux-image-4.0.5-040005-generic_4.0.5-040005.201506061639_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.0*.deb linux-image-4.0*.deb

sudo reboot

Remove Linux Kernel 4.0.5

sudo apt-get remove linux-header-4.0* linux-image-4.0*

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