I am not sure if this is might be more of a question rather than a bug report, but I'll try to answer.
At the moment the version of zfs-linux in Ubuntu bionic is 0.7.5-1ubuntu7. I don't know if there are any plans to update this particular package before release of 18.04, but at the moment this seems to be the version which will be shipped. I just found bug 1757012, so it is possible this could be updated if there is a push for it. In general, newer package versions are added to the development version of Ubuntu during the development cycle until it is officially released. So for instance 16.04 (xenial) is shipping what was the latest version in the archive at the time it was released. The package archives aren't completly frozen, it is possible to update packages with specific, important patches in a Stable Release Upgrade (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates) or a backport of a newer version (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports). Hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to zfs-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752310 Title: What is the zfs support policy wrt. LTS releases? Status in zfs-linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: If we consider the zfs 0.x releases as being major (0.6, 0.7, 0.8), is the assumption correct that LTS releases will not receive a new major ZFS release ? To be as practical as possible: Bionic will be stuck at zfs 0.7.x, Xenial at zfs 0.6.x ? If my assumption is wrong, when would Xenial see zfs 0.7 ? Has a policy been defined ? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/1752310/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
