The 20170707 version would be ideal to SRU for Xenial (and Zesty) since it fixes the hyperthreading defect on Skylake, Skylake-X, and Kabylake. The Kabylake fix is especially important. There is a lot of demand from users for a fix, and bios updates really aren't an ideal way to deliver it.
The 20170707 version would be ideal to SRU for Xenial (and Zesty) since it fixes the hyperthreading defect on Skylake, Skylake-X, and Kabylake. The Kabylake fix is especially important. There is a lot of demand from users for a fix, and bios updates really aren't an ideal way to deliver it.