Kernel Release planned to be used for 24.04 Noble

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 12:10, Dimitri John Ledkov
<dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 11:59, Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrea,
> >
> > Am 30/01/2024 um 12:04 schrieb Andrea Righi:
> > > 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
> >
> > Oh, I overlooked that – thanks for the pointers!
> >
> > > Keep in mind that 6.8 is still in the early stages, so something may be
> > > missing or broken.
> > Sure, but if I might ask, what is the rational one the kernel selection?
> > As in the past it seemed that for Ubuntu LTS releases a LTS kernel was
> > favored, besides for 18.04 due to the bad timing of the meltdown &
> > spectre advisory releases.
> >
> > Is it because the kernel.org LTS releases will have a shorter time until
> > EOL nowadays, i.e., 3 vs. 6 years, making it less relevant to base upon
> > them compared to the feature and HW support gains one gets from the newer
> > kernel that get releases more closely to when Ubuntu plans to release?
> >
>
> Ubuntu Kernel selection for every interim and LTS release is based on
> our schedule and needs in consultation with our partners and
> alliances.
>
> There are too many features and hardware support that we need from
> v6.7 and v6.8 kernels, making v6.6 not a great fit for our purposes.
>
> For example, even Jammy desktop GA iso shipped with v5.17 OEM kernel
> because v5.15 was impossible to work with on certified hardware at the
> time. And most (cloud & desktop-laptop hardware) of jammy
> installations have now rolled to v6.5 kernel and will roll to v6.8
> once noble ships.
>
> Ubuntu provides LTS (long term support) and ESM (extended security
> maintaince) by ourselves, irrespective of kernel.org support timelines
> of their kernels. Even today we support v3.3 kernel on trusty, through

typpo, v3.13 kernel on trusty

> to 6.5 kernel on mantic. This is not unique to Ubuntu Kernel, but to
> all packages shipped in Ubuntu. Although our support commitments are
> explained on https://ubuntu.com/pro and
> https://ubuntu.com/security/esm we have to continuously reiterate our
> position and our support offer see for example these blog posts
> https://ubuntu.com/blog/linux-kernel-lts and
> https://ubuntu.com/blog/running-openssl-1-1-1-after-eol-with-ubuntu-pro
>
> Irrespective of which kernels we ship, we will support them for at
> least 10 years.
>
> --
> Dimitri
>
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