Ever get miffed reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it doesn't come with the newest Linux kernel? Well, that'll soon be a thing of the

Canonical’s announced a major shift in its kernel selection process for future Ubuntu releases. An “aggressive kernel version commitment policy” pivot will see it ship the latest upstream kernel code in development at the time of a new Ubuntu release.

Original announcement: Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 months ago

    How many engineers can Canonical yeet now that they can skip on testing and backporting fixes to their own stable kernel?

    Are they also going to tell Joe average user to just submit any bugs to LKML?