Tues June 06, 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
- Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
- Simple Job Scripting now in stress-ng 0.08.00.
- Microsoft is using stress-ng for their Windows Subsystem for Linux shim.
- Xen security update released on Zesty, Yakkety, Xenial, and Trusty
- 4.11.0-5.10 in artful-proposed
- Unstable updated to 4.12-rc4
- canonical-kernel-team/proposed PPA available for testing artful proposed kernels
- Refreshed bcc snap on latest bcc tip (pulls in a bunch of bug fixes)
- Preparation of 4.4.70 upstream stable kernel update for Xenial
- CVE's fixed in latest Xenial SRU
- CVE-2016-7913
- CVE-2016-7917
- CVE-2016-8632
- CVE-2016-9083
- CVE-2016-9084
- CVE-2016-9120
- CVE-2016-9604
- CVE-2017-2596
- CVE-2017-2671
- CVE-2017-6001
- CVE-2017-7472
- CVE-2017-7618
- CVE-2017-7645
- CVE-2017-7889
- CVE-2017-7895
- CVE-2017-8061
- CVE-2017-8064
- CVE-2017-8067
- CVE-2017-8068
- CVE-2017-8069
- CVE-2017-8070
Devel Kernel Announcements
Version 4.11 is now in artful-proposed. We have a new ppa to make testing easier:
- ppa:canonical-kernel-team/proposed
Stable Kernel Announcements
Current cycle: 02-Jun through 24-Jun ==================================================================== 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. Kernel Versions ==================================================================== 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: 23-Jun through 15-Jul ==================================================================== 23-Jun Last day for kernel commits for this cycle 26-Jun - 01-Jul Kernel prep week. 02-Jul - 14-Jul Bug verification & Regression testing.. 17-Jul Release to -updates.
Status: CVE's
- The current CVE status can be reviewed at the following link: