Kernel Team Summary – September 13, 2017
Canonical
on 13 September 2017
September 05 through September 12
Development (Artful / 17.10)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule
Important upcoming dates:
Final Beta - Sept 28 (~2 weeks away) Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~3 weeks away) Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~4 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 - Oct 19 (~5 weeks away)
We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive. As a reminder, the Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.
Stable (Released & Supported)
-
The Xenial kernel and it’s derivatives were re-spun to address http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715636 “Xenial update to 4.4.78 stable release broke Address Sanitizer”.
-
The following kernels were promoted to -proposed for testing:
zesty 4.10.0-34.38 xenial 4.4.0-95.118 trusty 3.13.0-131.180 zesty/raspi2 4.10.0-1017.20 xenial/raspi2 4.4.0-1072.80 xenial/snapdragon 4.4.0-1074.79 xenial/aws 4.4.0-1033.42 xenial/gke 4.4.0-1029.29 xenial/gcp 4.10.0-1005.5 xenial/hwe 4.10.0-34.38~16.04.1 trusty/lts-xenial 4.4.0-94.117~14.04.1
-
Current 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.
-
Next cycle: 15-Sep through 07-Oct
15-Sep Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 18-Sep - 23-Sep Kernel prep week. 24-Sep - 06-Oct Bug verification & Regression testing. 09-Oct Release to -updates.
Misc
- The Canonical Kernel Team is Hiring!
- stress-ng V0.08.14 released. New features: “random text” zlib compression mode, a CPU branch prediction stressor, an extra kcmp KCMPEPOLLTFD stress mode, and increased functionality in the resource stressor.
- Running Ubuntu Containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows
- The current CVE status
- 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.
Ubuntu cloud
Ubuntu offers all the training, software infrastructure, tools, services and support you need for your public and private clouds.
Newsletter signup
Related posts
A look under the hood of our grid system and typography for the A4 format
We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and...
How Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable
Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with ESM keeps your systems up to date with essential security patches. But when something breaks or a complex issue arises, Ubuntu...
7 considerations when building your ML architecture
As the number of organizations moving their ML projects to production is growing, the need to build reliable, scalable architecture has become a more pressing...