5.0 based on kernel 4.10?

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Kaijia

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Hi there,

I wonder why the next release is using Linux Kernel 4.10 instead of the LTS 4.9? 4.10 only has a lifecycle of around 0.5 years so is likely to be already end-of-life when Proxmox 5.1 is released.
 
New kernels have new features regarding virtualization, therefore it make sense to use 4.10 for the first 5.x.

Proxmox VE is a rolling distribution, so you will see changing kernels during the 5.x series.
 
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also, our kernel is based on Ubuntu's, and Ubuntu will not have a release that uses the 4.9 kernel (yakkety is 4.8, which is already EOL upstream, and zesty will be 4.10).
 
fabian said:
also, our kernel is based on Ubuntu's, and Ubuntu will not have a release that uses the 4.9 kernel (yakkety is 4.8, which is already EOL upstream, and zesty will be 4.10).
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I thought proxmox is based on debian. And as dar as i know debian stretch will use kernel 4.9.
 
yes, the distribution is based on Debian, but we add
  • our own packages
  • patched and packaged versions of software not (yet) in Debian, or newer versions than in Debian (this is stuff like Qemu, LXC, but also ZFS and Sheepdog, ...)
  • a kernel based on Ubuntu's kernel
 
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