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Tues September 06, 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

Devel Kernel Announcements

We hope to finally have a yakkety v4.6 based kernel in the archive by end of week. Fingers crossed!

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/yakkety

Our unstable branch has also been rebased to v4.8-rc5.

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/unstable

Also, as noted in previous newsletters, we are also going to target a v4.8 based kernel for the 16.10 release. We will likely skip uploading a v4.7 based kernel to the archive and go directly to v4.8.

Stable Kernel Announcements

Current cycle: 26-Aug through 17-Sep
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         26-Aug   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
29-Aug - 03-Sep   Kernel prep week.
04-Sep - 16-Sep   Bug verification & Regression testing..
         19-Sep   Release to -updates.

Kernel Versions
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  precise  3.2.0-109.150
    trusty  3.13.0-95.142
     vivid  3.19.0-68.76
      wily  4.2.0-42.49
    xenial  4.4.0-36.55

lts-trusty  3.13.0-95.142~precise1
lts-utopic  3.16.0-77.99~14.04.1
lts-vivid   3.19.0-68.76~14.04.1
lts-wily    4.2.0-42.49~14.04.1
lts-xenial  4.4.0-34.53~14.04.1

Next cycle: 16-Sep through 08-Oct
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         16-Sep   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
19-Sep - 24-Sep   Kernel prep week.
25-Sep - 07-Oct   Bug verification & Regression testing..
         10-Oct   Release to -updates.

Status: CVE's

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

  http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html