Kernel Team summary: February 27, 2018

Development (18.04)

https://wiki.myasnchisdf.eu.org/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule

On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.15 based kernel in the Bionic repository.

Important upcoming dates:

       16.04.4 Point Release - Mar 1 (~1 week away)
              Feature Freeze - Mar 1 (~1 week away)
                      Beta 1 - Mar 8 (~2 weeks away)
                  Final Beta - Apr 5 (~6 weeks away)
               Kernel Freeze - Apr 12 (~7 weeks away)
                Final Freeze - Apr 19 (~8 weeks away)
                Ubuntu 18.04 - Apr 26 (~9 weeks away)
   

Stable (Released & Supported)

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is happy to announce that we are resuming our
regular SRU cadence cycle. See the schedule below for the important
dates for the upcoming SRU cycle.

• Next cycle: 09-Mar through 31-Mar

             09-Mar   Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
    12-Mar - 17-Mar   Kernel prep week.
    18-Mar - 30-Mar   Bug verification & Regression testing.
             02-Apr   Release to -updates.
  

Misc

• fwts 18.02.00 released
• The current CVE status
• 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: [email protected].