Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:17:01 +0000 | From | Luis Henriques <> | Subject | [ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support |
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The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be providing extended stable support for the Linux 3.16 kernel until April 2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure. The team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off with v3.16.7 [1]. Thank you, Greg.
In addition to the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" release, the Debian 8 "Jessie" release will also be based on this kernel [2]. Since the regular support for "Jessie" will go beyond April 2016, after this date Ben Hutchings (or myself) will continue the Linux 3.16 kernel maintenance.
Our linux-3.16.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from v3.16.7 and will be published here:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git
We will use the same stable request/review workflow and follow the standard upstream stable kernel rules. More details are available here [3].
We welcome any feedback and contribution to this effort. We will be posting the first review cycle patch set in a week or two.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/30/583 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/07/msg00413.html [3] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Cheers, -- Luís Henriques Ubuntu Kernel Team, Canonical Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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