Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Delayed Due to Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities

Canonical announced today that it decided to delay the upcoming 16.04.4 point release of the long-term supported Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system due to the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.

Originally scheduled for release next month on February 15, 2018, Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS is the fourth of five scheduled maintenance updates for Xenial Xerus, and it was supposed to ship with up-to-date kernel and graphics stacks based on those from the last stable release, Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark).

As you may be aware, two severe bugs were unearthed earlier this month, Spectre and Meltdown, discovered to affect billions of devices powered by modern processors. The industry has been working to mitigate these sec... (read more)

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