 thanks for the info. are the SRU team in a particular irc channel? (re @teward001: yes, though it needs to go through the SRU process first.  And the SRU team might NACK it, unless you have specific upstream commits that fix the problem you can nitpick into the specific older versions as specific patches.)
 more reading for you: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates (re @philipz: thanks for the info. are the SRU team in a particular irc channel?)