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Agenda

20120918 Meeting Agenda

ARM Status

Q/omap4: a new Q/omap4 3.5 kernel is out (3.5.0-210.16) and it contains:

• fixes for the video/unity flicker bug
• an updated kernel based on Ubuntu-3.5.0-14.16
  Working on restoring rtc/mfd_palmas functionalities at the moment.

Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following link:

http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Milestone Targeted Work Items

If your name is in the above table, please review your Beta-2 work items.

Status: Quantal Development Kernel

We have uploaded the 3.5.0-15.20 Quantal kernel. This upload most
notably contains an update to the v3.5.4 upstream stable kernel,
eCryptfs bug fixes, and haswell graphics support patches. This has also
been uploaded to the q-lts-backport [1] PPA to help facilitate testing
of the 12.10 kernel in 12.04. We welcome anyone to please install,
test, and let us know your feedback.
[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport
Important upcoming dates:

• Thurs Sept 20 – Beta 2 Freeze (~2 days)
• Thurs Sept 27 – Beta 2 (~1 week)
• Thurs Oct 4 – Kernel Freeze (~2 weeks)

Status: CVE’s

== 2012-09-18 (weekly) ==
Currently we have 76 CVEs on our radar, with 1 CVE added this week.
See the CVE matrix for the current list:

• http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html

  Overall the backlog has decreased slightly this week:

• http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/status/cve-metrics.txt

• http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/CVE-linux.txt

Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates – Precise/Oneiric/Natty/Lucid/Hardy

Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (September 18):

• Hardy – Nothing in this cycle
• Lucid – In -updates; 3 CVEs; (9 commits)
• Natty – In -updates; 4 CVEs; (9 commits)
• Oneiric – In -updates; 2 CVEs; 2 upstream stable release(s); (67 commits)
• Precise – In Testing; 2 CVEs; 1 upstream stable release(s); (66 commits)
  Current opened tracking bugs details:

• http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kernel-sru-workflow.html

  For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:

• http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html

  Future stable cadence cycles:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseInterlock

  NOTE: this is the *last* Natty kernel being built.

Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized

The Quantal will stay on v3.5 and not be rebased to v3.6.