According to the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 4.1.26 LTS adds great improvements to the MIPS, ARM64 (AArch64), ARM, PowerPC (PPC), and x86 hardware architectures, numerous updated drivers, in particular for things like ACPI, CPUIdle, Crypto, GPU, hwmon, IRQ Chip, MCB, MFD, MMC, MTD, networking (Atheros ath10k, ath5k, and ath9k, Realtek wireless drivers), PCI, PINCTRL, SCSI, Thunderbolt, TTY, USB, and Xen.