"Kernel HWE update for the upcoming Noble 24.04.3 point release"

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Hi everyone,

I noticed the following announcement, that was published three days ago (Thursday, 5th June 2025), in the Official "Ubuntu Community Hub" / "(Canonical) Ubuntu Discourse":

As you can see, if you click on the above link to read the post:

"(...) The next Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) point release is 24.04.3 which is scheduled for 2025-08-07T00:00:00Z (^1 ). For this point release, the HWE kernel will be updated from 6.11 (backport from 24.10 -generic kernel) to 6.14 (backport from 25.04 -generic kernel). (...)"

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I'll add this here, in case it's useful to anyone...

I tend to monitor progress with HWE kernels (for QA purposes mainly), usually via the command

rmadison linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04-edge linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04 |grep noble

I'd run that command in the two hours before the discourse post and no 6.14 had appeared, but sure enough after post was made I got a different result. Output today being

guiverc@d7050-next:~$   rmadison linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04-edge linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04 |grep noble
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04-edge | 6.8.0-31.31            | noble             | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04-edge | 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1   | noble-security    | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04-edge | 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1   | noble-updates     | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04-edge | 6.14.0-22.22~24.04.1+2 | noble-proposed    | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04      | 6.8.0-31.31            | noble             | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04      | 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1   | noble-security    | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04      | 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1   | noble-updates     | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x
 linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04      | 6.11.0-28.28~24.04.1   | noble-proposed    | amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x

It's NOT normal for edge kernels to be used by dailies, not those listing on the ISO QA tracker anyway, so until it advances to noble-proposed I'd not expect it on a daily.., but its somewhat common for dailies on point releases to be built using proposed packages (allowing QA testers to have media to install test etc on, before change actually goes out to regular users).

The current packages (daily) can be seen at https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/noble/daily-live/current/noble-desktop-amd64.manifest

All Quality Assurance testing is welcome though. Please report bugs on found issues though (we're not expecting any!).

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