The latest Linux Kernel LTS 3.10.30 has been announced today. Greg KH urged all users of this kernel series to upgrade as soon as possible.

Kernel 3.10.30 is a small release which mainly brings some updates drivers, including i915, nouveau, radeon, and mcc, as well as some fixes. For details, see the announcement.

Install / Upgrade to Kernel 3.10.30:

The Ubuntu Kernel Team has build the deb packages which are available in this page.

For command line, you can follow the steps below to install them:

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to download this kernel:

For 32 bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.30-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.30-031030-generic_3.10.30-031030.201402131735_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.30-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.30-031030_3.10.30-031030.201402131735_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.30-saucy/linux-image-3.10.30-031030-generic_3.10.30-031030.201402131735_i386.deb

For 64 bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.30-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.30-031030-generic_3.10.30-031030.201402131735_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.30-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.30-031030_3.10.30-031030.201402131735_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.30-saucy/linux-image-3.10.30-031030-generic_3.10.30-031030.201402131735_amd64.deb

2. Then install the packages:

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.10.30-*.deb linux-image-3.10.30-*.deb

After the installation, it automatically updated your grub boot loader. Just restart and boot with new kernel.

If you’re using a proprietary video driver, you may need to re-build or re-install to get it work with the new kernel.

If for some reason this kernel release doesn’t work properly for you, reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run this command in terminal to remove Linux Kernel 3.10.30:

sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-3.10.30-* linux-image-3.10.30-*