Kernel Team Summary – September 13, 2017

September 05 through September 12

Development (Artful / 17.10)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule

Important upcoming dates:

      Final Beta - Sept 28 (~2 weeks away)
      Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~3 weeks away)
      Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~4 weeks away)
      Ubuntu 17.10 - Oct 19 (~5 weeks away)
   

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. A 4.13 based kernel is available for testing from the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive. As a reminder, the Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

Stable (Released & Supported)

• The Xenial kernel and it’s derivatives were re-spun to address http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715636 “Xenial update to 4.4.78 stable release broke Address Sanitizer”.

• The following kernels were promoted to -proposed for testing:

    zesty   4.10.0-34.38
    xenial  4.4.0-95.118
    trusty  3.13.0-131.180
  
  
    zesty/raspi2       4.10.0-1017.20
    xenial/raspi2      4.4.0-1072.80
    xenial/snapdragon  4.4.0-1074.79
    xenial/aws         4.4.0-1033.42
    xenial/gke         4.4.0-1029.29
    xenial/gcp         4.10.0-1005.5
    xenial/hwe         4.10.0-34.38~16.04.1
    trusty/lts-xenial  4.4.0-94.117~14.04.1
  

• Current cycle: 25-Aug through 16-Sep

            25-Aug  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
   28-Aug - 02-Sep  Kernel prep week.
   03-Sep - 15-Sep  Bug verification & Regression testing.
            18-Sep  Release to -updates.
  
  
  

• Next cycle: 15-Sep through 07-Oct

             15-Sep  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
    18-Sep - 23-Sep  Kernel prep week.
    24-Sep - 06-Oct  Bug verification & Regression testing.
             09-Oct  Release to -updates.
  

Misc

• The Canonical Kernel Team is Hiring!
• stress-ng V0.08.14 released. New features: “random text” zlib compression mode, a CPU branch prediction stressor, an extra kcmp KCMPEPOLLTFD stress mode, and increased functionality in the resource stressor.
• Running Ubuntu Containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows
• The current CVE status
• 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: [email protected].