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Tues February 21, 2017

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

• fwts 17.02.00 has been released:

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/17.02.00

• stress-ng 0.07.21 was released, includes a new 'nop' stressor and 4K, 16K and 64K page size support for icache stressor.

Devel Kernel Announcements

We have a 4.10 based kernel available in the archive:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/4.10.0-8.10

Please test and let us know your results. It is currently based on the v4.10-rc8 upstream kernel.

Stable Kernel Announcements

Current cycle: 17-Feb through 11-Mar
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         17-Feb   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
20-Feb - 25-Feb   Kernel prep week.
26-Feb - 10-Mar   Bug verification & Regression testing..
         13-Mar   Release to -updates.

Kernel Versions
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          trusty  3.13.0-109.156
           vivid  3.19.0-81.89
         precise  3.2.0-122.165
          xenial  4.4.0-63.84
         yakkety  4.8.0-38.41

linux-lts-trusty  3.13.0-109.156~precise1
 linux-lts-vivid  3.19.0-81.89~14.04.1
linux-lts-xenial  4.4.0-63.84~14.04.1


Next cycle: 10-Mar through 01-Apr
====================================================================
         10-Mar   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
13-Mar - 18-Mar   Kernel prep week.
19-Mar - 31-Mar   Bug verification & Regression testing..
         03-Apr   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