Ubuntu Kernel Team - Weekly Newsletter, 2016-03-11

[Joseph Salisbury]

Hello,

The Ubuntu Kernel Team has published this weeks newsletter.

The Newsletter is published weekly.  It contains highlights from the
week, announcements regarding the development and stable kernels, as
well as any other news the Kernel Team may have.

This weeks newsletter is pasted in this email below.


Sincerely,

The Ubuntu Kernel Team



Tues Mar 11, 2016
Introduction

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel
Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting
subjects the team may be working on.

If you would like to reach the kernel team. You can find us at the
#ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode. Alternatively you can mail the
Ubuntu Kernel Team mailing list at: kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com


      Highlights

* A new release of FWTS was pushed out:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/16.02.00
* Kamal released upstream  4.2.8-ckt5.

* Luis released upstream 3.16.7-ckt25.


      Devel Kernel Announcements

Our Xenial kernel has been re-based to v4.4.4 and is available for
testing in the -proposed pocket of the archive, ie linux-4.4.0-12.27. 
It should promote to -updates shortly.  Please test and let us know your
results. Also, as an early reminder, Xenial Kernel Freeze is Thurs,
April 7. We encourage anyone needing kernel patches pulled into Xenial
to please submit them well in advance of Kernel Freeze to allow for as
much testing as possible.  Thanks!


      Stable Kernel Announcements

Current cycle: 19-Feb through 12-Mar
====================================================================
         19-Feb   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
21-Feb - 27-Feb   Kernel prep week.
28-Feb - 05-Mar   Bug verification & Regression testing.
06-Mar - 12-Mar   Regression testing & Release to -updates.

Kernel Versions
====================================================================
   precise  3.2.0-99.139
    trusty  3.13.0-79.123
     vivid  3.19.0-51.58
      wily  4.2.0-30.36

lts-trusty  3.13.0-79.123~precise1
lts-utopic  3.16.0-62.83~14.04.1
lts-vivid   3.19.0-51.58~14.04.1
lts-wily    4.2.0-30.36~14.04.1

Next cycle: 11-Mar through 02-Apr
====================================================================
         11-Mar   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle
13-Mar - 19-Mar   Kernel prep week.
20-Mar - 26-Mar   Bug verification & Regression testing.
27-Mar - 02-Apr   Regression testing & Release to -updates.


      Status: CVE's

The current CVE status can be reviewed at the following link:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/reports/kernel-cves.html