A new SRU cycle started

[Roxana Nicolescu]

The current cycle encountered some delays caused by the vulnerability called
Gather Data Sampling, which only affects Intel processors (CVE-2022-40982),
dubbed Downfall 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(vulnerability)). The
kernel mitigation that consisted of disabling AVX on systems without the
updated microcode caused some important userspace packages to crash 
including
apt, git and gnutils. This led to a round of respins where the 
mitigation was
disabled.
The expected release dates should not be affected by this.

cycle: 07-Aug through 03-Sep (4 weeks)
====================================================================
          02-Aug   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
07-Aug - 18-Aug   Kernel prep week(s).
18-Aug - 01-Sep   Bug verification & Regression testing.
  Week of 04-Sep   Release to -updates.


Kernel Versions
====================================================================
lunar:
     linux:               6.2.0-32.32
jammy:
     linux:               5.15.0-83.92
     linux-hwe-6.2:       6.2.0-32.32~22.04.1
focal:
     linux:               5.4.0-162.179
     linux-hwe-5.15:      5.15.0-83.92~20.04.1


cycle: 04-Sep through 01-Oct (4 weeks)
====================================================================
          30-Aug   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
04-Sep - 08-Sep   Kernel prep week.
11-Sep - 29-Sep   Bug verification & Regression testing.
  Week of 02-Oct   Release to -updates.