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title: Weekly Kernel Development Summary – Wed July 27, 2017
description: 'This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week. 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@lists.ubuntu.com. Highlights The upstream stable releases, 4.4.77 and
  4.4.78, have been ap […]'
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# Weekly Kernel Development Summary – Wed July 27, 2017

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This is the Ubuntu Kernel Team highlights and status for the week.

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@lists.ubuntu.com.

## Highlights

* The upstream stable releases, 4.4.77 and 4.4.78, have been applied to Xenial.
* The Artful staging repository has been rebased to 4.12.3.
* Work on 4.13 for Artful has been started.
* [Changes of the \_OSI object in ACPI spec 6.1a & 6.2 and in Linux](https://alexhungdmz.blogspot.ca/2017/07/changes-of-osi-object-in-acpi-spec-61a.html).
* The following kernels were promoted to -updates and -security:

  ```
  xenial             4.4.0-87.110
  xenial/raspi2      4.4.0-1065.73
  xenial/snapdragon  4.4.0-1067.72
  xenial/aws         4.4.0-1026.35
  xenial/gke         4.4.0-1022.22
  trusty/lts-xenial  4.4.0-87.110~14.04.1
  ```
* The following CVE’s have been fixed in the last SRU cycle:

  + Zesty 17.10
    - CVE-2017-9605
    - CVE-2017-1000380
    - CVE-2017-7346
    - CVE-2014-9900
  + Xenial 16.04
    - CVE-2014-9900
    - CVE-2017-9074
    - CVE-2017-7346
    - CVE-2015-8944
    - CVE-2017-9150
    - CVE-2017-1000364
  + Trusty 14.04
    - CVE-2014-9900
    - CVE-2017-9074
    - CVE-2015-8963
    - CVE-2015-8962
    - CVE-2015-8955
    - CVE-2015-8964
    - CVE-2015-8967
    - CVE-2017-8925
    - CVE-2017-8924
    - CVE-2015-8966
    - CVE-2017-7346
    - CVE-2016-10088
    - CVE-2015-8944
    - CVE-2017-1000380
    - CVE-2017-9605
    - CVE-2017-7895

## Development Kernel Announcements

We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.11. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017.

## Stable Kernel Announcements

* Current cycle: 14-July through 05-August

  ```
           14-Jul  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
  17-Jul - 22-Jul  Kernel prep week.
  23-Jul - 04-Aug  Bug verification & Regression testing.
           07-Aug  Release to -updates.
  ```
* Next cycle: 04-Aug through 26-Aug

  ```
           04-Aug  Last day for kernel commits for this cycle.
  07-Aug - 12-Aug  Kernel prep week.
  13-Aug - 25-Aug  Bug verification & Regression testing.
           28-Aug  Release to -updates.
  ```
* [The current CVE status](http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html)

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