I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on a 16.04.2 LTS system. I did not see any kernel related packages, so I did not reboot.
To my surprise, I no longer have /sbin/init (as shown by ps -auxw as root) as process ID 1; instead PID 1 is /lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 20.
Is this expected?
...or is this a side-effect of upgrading?
...and if I reboot, would I see /sbin/init return?