Kernel Team Summary – September 20, 2017
Canonical
on 20 September 2017
September 13 through September 18
Development (Artful / 17.10)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule
Important upcoming dates:
Final Beta - Sept 28 (~1 week away) Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~2 weeks away) Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~3 weeks away) Ubuntu 17.10 - Oct 19 (~4 weeks away)
We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.1 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)
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All kernels have been re-spun to include a fix for high priority CVE-2017-1000251.
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SRU cycle completed successfully and the following kernel updates have been released:
trusty 3.13.0-132.181 trusty/lts-xenial 4.4.0-96.119~14.04.1 xenial 4.4.0-96.119 xenial/snapdargon 4.4.0-1076.81 xenial/raspi2 4.4.0-1074.82 xenial/aws 4.4.0-1035.44 xenial/gke 4.4.0-1031.31 xenial/gcp 4.10.0-1006.6 zesty 4.10.0-35.39 zesty/raspi2 4.10.0-1018.21
- The following kernel snap updates have been released in the snap store:
gke-kernel 4.4.0.1031.32 aws-kernel 4.4.0.1035.37 dragonboard-kernel 4.4.0.1076.68 pi2-kernel 4.4.0.1074.74 pc-kernel 4.4.0.96.101
- The following kernel snap updates have been released in the snap store:
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Current 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.
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Next cycle: 06-Oct through 28-Oct
06-Oct Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
09-Oct - 14-Oct Kernel prep week.
15-Oct - 27-Oct Bug verification & Regression testing.
30-Oct Release to -updates.
Misc
- The Canonical Kernel Team is Hiring!
- 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.
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