Weekly Kernel Development Summary – Wed July 27, 2017

on 27 July 2017

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This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week.

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

  • The upstream stable releases, 4.4.77 and 4.4.78, have been applied to Xenial.
  • The Artful staging repository has been rebased to 4.12.3.
  • Work on 4.13 for Artful has been started.
  • Changes of the _OSI object in ACPI spec 6.1a & 6.2 and in Linux.

  • The following kernels were promoted to -updates and -security:

    xenial             4.4.0-87.110
xenial/raspi2      4.4.0-1065.73
xenial/snapdragon  4.4.0-1067.72
xenial/aws         4.4.0-1026.35
xenial/gke         4.4.0-1022.22
trusty/lts-xenial  4.4.0-87.110~14.04.1

  • The following CVE’s have been fixed in the last SRU cycle:

    • Zesty 17.10
      • CVE-2017-9605
      • CVE-2017-1000380
      • CVE-2017-7346
      • CVE-2014-9900
    • Xenial 16.04
      • CVE-2014-9900
      • CVE-2017-9074
      • CVE-2017-7346
      • CVE-2015-8944
      • CVE-2017-9150
      • CVE-2017-1000364
    • Trusty 14.04
      • CVE-2014-9900
      • CVE-2017-9074
      • CVE-2015-8963
      • CVE-2015-8962
      • CVE-2015-8955
      • CVE-2015-8964
      • CVE-2015-8967
      • CVE-2017-8925
      • CVE-2017-8924
      • CVE-2015-8966
      • CVE-2017-7346
      • CVE-2016-10088
      • CVE-2015-8944
      • CVE-2017-1000380
      • CVE-2017-9605
      • CVE-2017-7895

Development Kernel Announcements

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.11. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

Stable Kernel Announcements

  • Current cycle: 14-July through 05-August

             14-Jul  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
17-Jul - 22-Jul  Kernel prep week.
23-Jul - 04-Aug  Bug verification & Regression testing.
         07-Aug  Release to -updates.

  • Next 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.

  • The current CVE status

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