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Tues May 31, 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

• Prepared 4.10.17 and 4.4.69 upstream stable for zesty/xenial
• Latest FWTS release:

  • http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/what-is-new-in-fwts-170500.html

• Blog about fwts frontend - The easy to use text based fwts user interface

  • http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/firmware-test-suite-text-based-front-end.html

• bcc snap version 0.3.0-20170530-1905-aa4543f has been released.
• Finished 4.11 configuration review
• Update artful/4.11 to 4.11.3
• Update unstable/4.12 to 4.12-rc3
• Version 4.4.0-79.100 is now in Xenial -proposed
• Version 4.8.0-54.57 is now in Yakkety -proposed
• Version 4.10.0-22.24 is now in Zesty -proposed

Devel Kernel Announcements

We're working on getting 4.11 in the archive. It is available in the c-k-t ppa for testing.

Stable Kernel Announcements

Current cycle: 12-May through 03-Jun
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         12-May   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
15-May - 20-May   Kernel prep week.
21-May - 02-Jun   Bug verification & Regression testing..
         05-Jun   Release to -updates.

Kernel Versions
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         precise  3.2.0-126.169
          trusty  3.13.0-119.166
           vivid  3.19.0-84.92
          xenial  4.4.0-78.99
         yakkety  4.8.0-53.56

linux-lts-trusty  3.13.0-117.164~precise1
 linux-lts-vivid  3.19.0-80.88~14.04.1
linux-lts-xenial  4.4.0-78.99~14.04.1


Next cycle: 02-Jun through 24-Jun
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         02-Jun   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
05-Jun - 10-Jun   Kernel prep week.
11-Jun - 23-Jun   Bug verification & Regression testing..
         26-Jun   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