While I was just reading through the Xenial Xerus Release Schedule, I saw the next point release, being 16.04.4 LTS on February 15th, 2018. I was waiting 4 days for it.
On the release date, I forgot to turn on my Ubuntu system, so I checked today on Ubuntu Wiki/Releases. Guess what I found; 16.04.3 LTS!
Does anybody know where is the 16.04.4 point release?
Best Answer
It was delayed due to the Meltdown and Spectre security issues. This took up a lot of everybody's time while things were patched and tested. There are still patches coming out for various CPUs. It's a complicated issue and the fixes are far from ideal.
Anyway, the new release date was recently announced as the 1st of March 2018.