October 17 through October 23

Development (18.04)

Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality of that kernel. We look at the Ubuntu release schedule and how that will line up with the upstream kernel releases. We talk to hardware vendors about when they will be landing their changes upstream and what they would prefer as the Ubuntu kernel version. We talk to major cloud vendors and ask them what they would like. We speak to large consumers of Ubuntu to solicit their opinion. We look at what will be the next upstream stable kernel. We get input from members of the Canonical product strategy team. Taking all of that into account we are tentatively planning to converge on 4.15 for the Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS release.

On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.14 based kernel in the kernel team’s unstable ppa.

Stable (Released & Supported)

• The updated kernel packages for the current SRU cycle are now in -proposed ready for verification and testing.

Kernel versions in -proposed:

      trusty                   3.13.0-135.184
      trusty/linux-lts-xenial  4.4.0-98.121~14.04.1

  xenial                   4.4.0-98.121
  xenial/linux-hwe         4.10.0-38.42~16.04.1

  zesty                    4.10.0-38.42

• Current cycle: 06-Oct through 28-Oct

             06-Oct   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
    09-Oct - 14-Oct   Kernel prep week.
    15-Oct - 27-Oct   Bug verification & Regression testing.
             30-Oct   Release to -updates.

• Next cycle: 27-Oct through 18-Nov

             27-Oct   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
    30-Oct - 04-Nov   Kernel prep week.
    05-Nov - 17-Nov   Bug verification & Regression testing.
             20-Nov   Release to -updates.
  

Misc

• 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.