Kernel Team summary: February 27, 2018
Canonical
on 27 February 2018
Development (18.04)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule
On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.15 based kernel in the Bionic repository.
Important upcoming dates:
16.04.4 Point Release - Mar 1 (~1 week away)
Feature Freeze - Mar 1 (~1 week away)
Beta 1 - Mar 8 (~2 weeks away)
Final Beta - Apr 5 (~6 weeks away)
Kernel Freeze - Apr 12 (~7 weeks away)
Final Freeze - Apr 19 (~8 weeks away)
Ubuntu 18.04 - Apr 26 (~9 weeks away)
Stable (Released & Supported)
The Ubuntu Kernel Team is happy to announce that we are resuming our
regular SRU cadence cycle. See the schedule below for the important
dates for the upcoming SRU cycle.
- Next cycle: 09-Mar through 31-Mar
09-Mar Last day for kernel commits for this cycle. 12-Mar - 17-Mar Kernel prep week. 18-Mar - 30-Mar Bug verification & Regression testing. 02-Apr Release to -updates.
Misc
- fwts 18.02.00 released
- 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.
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