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Lots of stable kernel updatesLots of stable kernel updatesPosted Oct 7, 2012 18:14 UTC (Sun) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768)Parent article: Lots of stable kernel updates
What are the LTS kernels again?
3.6 was just released and 3.5 support is ending?
That just seems wrong.
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Long-term support Posted Oct 7, 2012 18:37 UTC (Sun) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] The longterm kernels currently are 3.0 and 3.4. The 3.5 kernel, instead, is on the usual cycle - supported roughly through the release of 3.n+1-rc1.
Long-term support Posted Oct 7, 2012 20:45 UTC (Sun) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768) [Link]
OK thanks.
I believe kernel.org used to note the LTS kernels but I don't see it anymore.
Long-term support Posted Oct 7, 2012 20:51 UTC (Sun) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]
> supported roughly through the release of 3.n+1-rc1.
Actually, non-longterm 3.n series are guaranteed to get at least one stable release after 3.(n+1) final has been released. This so that if anyone else wants to continue to maintain it (like your distro maintainer), they only have to slug through the stable updates of later kernels to find patches to backport.
Usually that means that the last 3.n.x stable release are made simultaneously with 3.(n+1).1, though sometime it is made between 3.(n+1) and 3.(n+1).1, and sometimes it is made simultaneously with 3.(n+1).2.
Long-term support Posted Oct 8, 2012 8:24 UTC (Mon) by freggy (guest, #37477) [Link]
3.2 is also longterm.
Lots of stable kernel updates Posted Oct 8, 2012 2:31 UTC (Mon) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]
I just "git pull"ed and (after hundreds of lines of updates) my Makefile remains:
VERSION = 3 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 0 EXTRAVERSION = NAME = Terrified Chipmunk
So i'm not in some stream which includes/receives "stable" releases, apparently [shrug]
However, given the Wikipedia excerpt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Version_numbering):
thankee!
Lots of stable kernel updates Posted Oct 8, 2012 2:37 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
> Is there any reason to understand that 3.6.1 is a "stable release" (as opposed to a "security and bug fix")?
a 'stable' release is security and bugfix, so it's two ways of saying the same thing
so 3.6 is released, 3.6.x are bugifx updates to 3.6, all new development is headed for 3.7
normally, around the time that 3.7.1 is released, all support will cease for 3.6.x
"Long Term Support" kernels are ones where someone has decided to support them for a longer timeframe. Currently 3.0.x and 3.4.x are in this category. There is no firm timeframe for when support for these will cease.
Lots of stable kernel updates Posted Oct 8, 2012 6:04 UTC (Mon) by istenrot (subscriber, #69564) [Link]
You need to track Greg's stable tree in addition to Linus' master tree in order to get stable releases.
You probably have already cloned Linus' tree:
Next add Greg's stable tree:
Start tracking Greg's stable 3.6 releases:
Use git describe, to verify you have 3.6.1 sources.
Do git remote update && git pull, whenever you want to refresh your cloned repos.
Lots of stable kernel updates Posted Oct 8, 2012 16:01 UTC (Mon) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]
Thank you very much! This remains one of the only forums where one can apparently learn these important things.
Learn Posted Oct 8, 2012 22:03 UTC (Mon) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206) [Link]
LWN and cobet are invaluable to the community, Thanks guys
MFG, omb
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