Kernel Team Summary – October 18th, 2017
Canonical
on 18 October 2017
Tags: 17.10 , Artful Aardvark , kernel , Trusty Tahr , Xenial Xerus
Development (Artful / 17.10)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule
Important upcoming dates:
Ubuntu 17.10 Release - Oct 19 (~1 days away)
We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13.4 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive.
Stable (Released & Supported)
- The updated kernel packages for the current SRU cycle are now in -proposed ready for verification and tests.
Kernel versions in -proposed:
trusty 3.13.0-134.183 trusty/linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-98.121~14.04.1xenial 4.4.0-98.121 xenial/linux-hwe 4.10.0-38.42~16.04.1 zesty 4.10.0-38.42
- Current 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.
- Next cycle: 27-Oct through 18-Nov
27-Oct Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 30-Oct - 04-Nov Kernel prep week. 05-Nov - 17-Nov Bug verification & Regression testing. 20-Nov Release to -updates.
Misc
- 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: [email protected].
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