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Tues Feb 23, 2016

Introduction

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on.

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

Highlights

• The xenial kernel gained experimental support for mounting fuse and ext2/3/4 filesystems from within unprivileged containers. More information is at http://blog.forshee.me/2016/02/container-mounts-in-ubuntu-1604.html.

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Devel Kernel Announcements

Stable Kernel Announcements

Current cycle: 29-Jan through 20-Feb
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         29-Jan   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
31-Jan - 06-Feb   Kernel prep week.
07-Feb - 13-Feb   Bug verification & Regression testing.
14-Feb - 20-Feb   Regression testing & Release to -updates.


Kernel Versions
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   precise  3.2.0-99.139
    trusty  3.13.0-78.122
     vivid  3.19.0-50.56
      wily  4.2.0-29.34

lts-trusty  3.13.0-78.122~precise1
lts-utopic  3.16.0-61.81~14.04.1
lts-vivid   3.19.0-50.56~14.04.1
lts-wily    4.2.0-29.34~14.04.1


Next cycle: 19-Feb through 12-Mar
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         19-Feb   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
21-Feb - 27-Feb   Kernel prep week.
28-Feb - 05-Mar   Bug verification & Regression testing. 
06-Mar - 12-Mar   Regression testing & Release to -updates.

Status: CVE's

• The current CVE status can be reviewed at the following link:

  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kernel-cves.html