Tues June 06, 2017

Introduction

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on.

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

Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/06/06/canonical-kernel-livepatch-service-now-available-for-ubuntu-14-04-lts

Simple Job Scripting now in stress-ng 0.08.00. http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/simple-job-scripting-in-stress-ng-00800.html

Microsoft is using stress-ng for their Windows Subsystem for Linux shim. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/11/testing-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux

Xen security update released on Zesty, Yakkety, Xenial, and Trusty

4.11.0-5.10 in artful-proposed

Unstable updated to 4.12-rc4

canonical-kernel-team/proposed PPA available for testing artful proposed kernels

Refreshed bcc snap on latest bcc tip (pulls in a bunch of bug fixes)

Preparation of 4.4.70 upstream stable kernel update for Xenial

CVE's fixed in latest Xenial SRU CVE-2016-7913 CVE-2016-7917 CVE-2016-8632 CVE-2016-9083 CVE-2016-9084 CVE-2016-9120 CVE-2016-9604 CVE-2017-2596 CVE-2017-2671 CVE-2017-6001 CVE-2017-7472 CVE-2017-7618 CVE-2017-7645 CVE-2017-7889 CVE-2017-7895 CVE-2017-8061 CVE-2017-8064 CVE-2017-8067 CVE-2017-8068 CVE-2017-8069 CVE-2017-8070



Devel Kernel Announcements

Version 4.11 is now in artful-proposed. We have a new ppa to make testing easier:

ppa:canonical-kernel-team/proposed

Stable Kernel Announcements

Current cycle: 02-Jun through 24-Jun ==================================================================== 02-Jun Last day for kernel commits for this cycle 05-Jun - 10-Jun Kernel prep week. 11-Jun - 23-Jun Bug verification & Regression testing.. 26-Jun Release to -updates. Kernel Versions ==================================================================== precise 3.2.0-126.169 trusty 3.13.0-119.166 vivid 3.19.0-84.92 xenial 4.4.0-78.99 yakkety 4.8.0-53.56 linux-lts-trusty 3.13.0-117.164~precise1 linux-lts-vivid 3.19.0-80.88~14.04.1 linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-78.99~14.04.1 Next cycle: 23-Jun through 15-Jul ==================================================================== 23-Jun Last day for kernel commits for this cycle 26-Jun - 01-Jul Kernel prep week. 02-Jul - 14-Jul Bug verification & Regression testing.. 17-Jul Release to -updates.

Status: CVE's