[ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 10:43:28AM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be
> > providing extended stable support for the Linux 3.16 kernel until
> > April 2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.
> > The team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off with
> > v3.16.7 [1].  Thank you, Greg.
> > 
> > In addition to the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" release, the Debian 8
> > "Jessie" release will also be based on this kernel [2].  Since the
> > regular support for "Jessie" will go beyond April 2016, after this
> > date Ben Hutchings (or myself) will continue the Linux 3.16 kernel
> > maintenance.
> > 
> > Our linux-3.16.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from
> > v3.16.7
> > and will be published here:
> > 
> >     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
> > here [3].
> > 
> 
> In addition, I would like to announce a change in the kernel numbering
> scheme that we will be using: we are adding the string '-ckt'
> ('Canonical Kernel Team') to the kernel version.  So, for example,
> kernel '3.16.7.1' becomes '3.16.7-ckt1'.

Thank you for doing this.

greg k-h