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According to a report by Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Linux kernel 3.18.48 LTS is the last in the series, which was previously set for “extinction” in January 2017.<\/p>\n “It brings an updated networking stack with Bluetooth, Bridge, IPv4, IPv6, CAIF, and Netfilter improvements,” stated the report.<\/p>\n The report said Linux users should move to a new\u00a0long-term support branch, such as\u00a0Linux kernel 4.9 or 4.4.<\/p>\n It also noted that Linux 3.18 is still used by Google and other vendors in several\u00a0Android-powered devices.<\/p>\n The Linux kernel 3.18 series has received its last hotfix, putting an end to the release cycle of long-term support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1799,41227],"class_list":["post-197985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linux","tag-linux-kernel-3-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197989,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197985\/revisions\/197989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0BlackBerry makes secure messaging for enterprises easier<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"