Kernel Team Summary: August 23, 2017

Development (Artful / 17.10)

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.12. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

• The 4.12 kernel is available in the archive for Artful 17.10. It is based on upstream v4.12.8.
• The Artful staging kernel repository has been updated to 4.13-rc5.
• Xen has been updated to 4.9 in Artful this week.

Stable (Released & Supported)

• The following kernel snaps have been uploaded to the snapcraft store:

    aws-kernel          4.4.0.1031.33
    dragonboard-kernel  4.4.0.1072.64
    gke-kernel          4.4.0.1027.28
    pc-kernel           4.4.0.92.97
    pi2-kernel          4.4.0.1070.70
  

• Current cycle: 04-Aug through 26-Aug

            04-Aug  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
   07-Aug - 12-Aug  Kernel prep week.
   13-Aug - 25-Aug  Bug verification & Regression testing.
            28-Aug  Release to -updates.
  

• Next 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.
  

Misc

• Released stress-ng 0.08.11 (new inode flag stressor and minor fixes).
• 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].
• The current CVE status