The flood of vulnerabilities forces Ubuntu to release kernel patches every week
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced that it is changing how it releases Linux kernel updates. Until now it worked with four-week cycles for regular releases and two-week cycles for security releases; from now on it will use overlapping two-week cycles, allowing it to ship a new kernel every week. The reason is the explosive growth in reported vulnerabilities.
Artificial intelligence is partly to blame: according to Canonical, language models and specialised agents have turned bug hunting, once manual and slow, into a highly automated process. On top of that, since 2024 the Linux kernel project itself assigns CVE identifiers to thousands of flaws that were not catalogued before. Canonical also commits to providing workarounds or hardening measures within 24 to 48 hours of a flaw being disclosed. For anyone running servers, this means more frequent updates and reboots.
Tip from Soporte Informático 360
If your company runs Ubuntu servers, plan more frequent maintenance windows to apply the new kernels, automate the installation of security patches and consider live patching tools to reduce reboots. An unpatched server is now a much easier target.
Source: The Register. Summary prepared by our team for informational purposes.
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