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I just read this in answer on another question asked by member

4.10 (=17.04) will not be patched: 17.04 went end of life last week (:)) and if you updated the kernel from 4.4 (initial kernel for 16.04) you should be on kernel 14.13 and not 14.10

I have 16.04 LTS installed on my laptop.... so why am I showing "4.10.0-42 generic" when running command uname -r

Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial

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Please refer to this diagram from the page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack enter image description here

If you are running 16.04.3 LTS and using kernel 4.10.0-42-generic, you can see that the schedule planned to have your system updated to 16.04.4 and the 4.13 kernel family next month.

Instead of patching the 4.10 kernel family, which would only be used for a few weeks, the plan is to update these systems to 16.04.4 early, which will pull in the patched 4.13 kernel instead.

Bottom line, sit tight and wait for the update to show up. I would guess it will be tomorrow.

Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown

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