Kernel Release planned to be used for 24.04 Noble

[Andrea Righi]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Hi!
> 

Hi Thomas,

> I saw that the git repo for the noble release on launchpad [0] was updated
> to base on Linux 6.7 recently on the master-next branch.
> 
> As the Ubuntu 24.04 will be an LTS release, I wanted to ask if it isn't
> planned to use a kernel.org LTS release like 6.6 as base, but rather a newer
> one?

We are planning to go with a v6.8 kernel, here is the official
announcement:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-kernel-6-8-for-the-24-04-noble-numbat-release

At the moment we are working in parallel both with v6.7, in the
noble/master-next branch, and with v6.8 in the unstable/master branch:
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/unstable

The latest 6.8-based Ubuntu kernel is also available in this ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/unstable

Keep in mind that 6.8 is still in the early stages, so something may be
missing or broken.

Cheers,
-Andrea

> 
> And as the Noble release schedule [1] mentions that March 28 will be the
> Kernel Feature Freeze date, I wondered if in that case it's planned to go
> for the 6.8 kernel, which will be almost certainly released until then.
> 
> [0]: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble/
> [1]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-schedule/35649
> 
> cheers,
>  Thomas
> 
> 
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