Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 Quarterly Update 4 Now Available

By Michele Casey on Jan 05, 2015

We are pleased to announce the availability of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 Quarterly Update 4 (UEKR3U4) for Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 7. This is the fourth quarterly update release for UEK Release 3 (Version 3.8.13-55) and includes driver updates and a consolidation of fixes for bugs and security issues.

Some notable highlights include:

• Users are now able to specify which modules DTrace shold load automatically during startup by specifying the module in /etc/dtrace-modules.
• PMC-Sierra PM8001 SAS/SATA controller driver (pm8001) , which supports the new Adaptec Series 7H family of 8-port and 16-port PCIe gen3 SAS/SATA host bus adapters, has been added.
• Intel XL710 X710 Virtual Function network driver (i40evf) has been added.
• The P-state driver (intel_pstate) for the Intel Sandy Bridge processor has been added.
• Various network performance improvement patches to support Oracle Linux virtual machines running on Microsoft Hyper-V have been included.
• NFS over Remote Data Memory Access (RDMA) Client is available as a technology preview. 
• Device driver updates (e.g. storage devices, network cards) from key partners, such as:
• Broadcom
• Emulex
• HP
• Intel
• LSI
• Mellanox
• PMCS
• QLogic
• Tigon

For more details, please review the release notes.

The source code is available on our public git repository.