Re: Kernel plans for Fedora 24

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On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
<johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/16/2016 04:01 PM, Justin Forbes wrote:
>>
>> With the 4.5 kernel out and the merge window for 4.6 opened up, we had
>> to make a decision on what the release kernel for F24 would be.  The
>> decision has been made to ship F24 with the 4.5 kernel with 4.6
>> available as an update once it is ready.  Timing wise, 4.6 *should*
>> release just before the final freeze for F24, but that is cutting it
>> insanely close. Should Fedora move on as scheduled, and 4.6 have some
>> delay due to a bug that impacts users, that would be unfortunate.
>> This means we have a good bit of time to make sure that everything is
>> working as intended with 4.5 in Fedora.  It also means that any
>> installer critical fixes will need to be backported to 4.5.
>
>
> Given that 4.6 is out and current F24 final freeze is not scheduled until
> 2016-05-31 should not F24 be released with the 4.6 kernel?

I think the original logic is still sound. There have been three
delays for Fedora 24 already, in the original schedule today was to be
GA. I don't think it's worth any risk for another slip.

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