Kernel Team Summary- August 16, 2017
Femma
on 16 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 4.11. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.
- The kernel in the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive has been updated to v4.12.7
- The kernel in the Artful staging repository has been updated to v4.13-rc5
Stable (Released & Supported)
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Embargoed CVEs CVE-2017-1000111 and CVE-2017-1000112 have been made public and the fixes released for all the affected kernels (including their derivatives and rebases):
trusty 3.13.0-128.177 xenial 4.4.0-91.114 zesty 4.10.0-32.36
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The Xenial and Xenial-based kernels have been re-spun to fix a regression with OpenStack (LP: #1709032) and the following packages are on the way of getting promoted to -updates:
xenial 4.4.0-92.115 xenial/raspi2 4.4.0-1070.78 xenial/snapdragon 4.4.0-1072.77 xenial/aws 4.4.0-1031.40 xenial/gke 4.4.0-1027.27 trusty/lts-xenial 4.4.0-92.115~14.04.1
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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
- eventstat 0.04.00 for 17.10 has been released. This now uses kernel trace events rather than the deprecated /proc/timer_stat interface.
- 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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