Kernel Team Summary: August 23, 2017
Canonical
on 23 August 2017
Development (Artful / 17.10)
We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.12. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.
- The 4.12 kernel is available in the archive for Artful 17.10. It is based on upstream v4.12.8.
- The Artful staging kernel repository has been updated to 4.13-rc5.
- Xen has been updated to 4.9 in Artful this week.
Stable (Released & Supported)
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The following kernel snaps have been uploaded to the snapcraft store:
aws-kernel 4.4.0.1031.33 dragonboard-kernel 4.4.0.1072.64 gke-kernel 4.4.0.1027.28 pc-kernel 4.4.0.92.97 pi2-kernel 4.4.0.1070.70
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Current cycle: 04-Aug through 26-Aug
04-Aug Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 07-Aug - 12-Aug Kernel prep week. 13-Aug - 25-Aug Bug verification & Regression testing. 28-Aug Release to -updates.
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Next cycle: 25-Aug through 16-Sep
25-Aug Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 28-Aug - 02-Sep Kernel prep week. 03-Sep - 15-Sep Bug verification & Regression testing. 18-Sep Release to -updates.
Misc
- Released stress-ng 0.08.11 (new inode flag stressor and minor fixes).
- If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel
channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing
list at: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com. - The current CVE status
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