16.04 going to include auto patching?

**Swiftjay** · April 8th, 2016

Haven't found any confirmation around the internet but as 16.04 will include kernel 4.x will they be doing auto patching? It may seem like a simple answer as it's built into kernel 4.x but suse do not have auto patching on their kernel 4.x so it's a genuine question for me.

**Swiftjay** · April 20th, 2016

*bump* any confirmation?

**Bucky Ball** · April 20th, 2016

Thread moved to Ubuntu Development Version.

You could download the ISO, create live media, 'Try Ubuntu' and have a look around.

**deadflowr** · April 20th, 2016

I don't think I've seen any live patching as of yet, so probably not.

**grahammechanical** · April 20th, 2016

If you mean upgrading the kernel without the need to re-start then I would say the answer is, it has not been implemented yet. I also think that systemd is requiring restarts as well. So, as far as I can tell the number of restarts during the development cycle has increased.

Regards

**Swiftjay** · April 21st, 2016

Thanks @Deadflower and grahammechanical I guess the options for live patching were just a dream then. It would be nice in the future to have something like that but I doubt it's going to happen any time soon.