Subject [ANNOUNCE] Linux 4.2.y-ckt extended stable support From Kamal Mostafa <> Date Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:11:40 -0800 On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 22:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> This is the LAST 4.2.y kernel to be released [...]



Canonical's kernel team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH

left off with v4.2.8 (thanks, Greg!)...





Canonical's Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be

providing extended stable support for the Linux 4.2 kernel until August

2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.



Our linux-4.2.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from v4.2.8

and will be published here:



http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git



git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git



We will use the same stable request/review workflow and follow the

standard upstream stable kernel rules. More details are available at

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable



We welcome any feedback and contribution to this effort. The first

review cycle patch set (for "v4.2.8-ckt1") will be posted in a week or

two.



-Kamal Mostafa

Ubuntu Kernel Team, Canonical Ltd.









