Kernel Team Summary: September 6, 2017

Development (Artful / 17.10)

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

Important upcoming dates:

      Final Beta - Sept 28 (~3 weeks away)
      Kernel Freeze - Oct 5 (~4 weeks away)
      Final Freeze - Oct 12 (~5 weeks away)
      Ubuntu 17.10 - Oct 19 (~6 weeks away)
   

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The Artful kernel is currently based on Linux 4.12.10. The Artful staging kernel repository has been updated to 4.13 final. As a reminder, the Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

Stable (Released & Supported)

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

    zesty   4.10.0-34.38
    xenial  4.4.0-94.117
    trusty  3.13.0-130.179
  
  
    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!
• FWTS V17.08.00 is available
  The latest fwts release contains one of the largest change sets, plus lots of changes from community.
• stress-ng V0.08.13 released, includes a new socket diagnostics stressor
• Blog Post: Static analysis on the Linux kernel
• 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: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com.