6.12 being LTS (as expected - but not labeled) - 4.19 now EOL (as former LTS - with hints to go directly to 6.12 LTS) ...

Posted Dec 5, 2024 16:01 UTC (Thu) by JMB (guest, #74439)
Parent article: Stable kernels 6.12.2, 6.11.11, and 4.19.325

It is interesting that www.kernel.org still marks 1.12.1 as stable
and not yet as longterm - and GKH notes 6.12 as LTS in 4.19.325
announcement to persuade people still using this LTS to directly
jump to the latest LTS with is now fresh in 6.12.2 ...
so extremely early ...

Maybe there is a lot of problems to differentiate between
security (which is always not being determined in a real quantity)
and reliability which is matter of experience ...
This no criticism ... just thoughts ...

6.12 being LTS (as expected - but not labeled) - 4.19 now EOL (as former LTS - with hints to go directly to 6.12 LTS) ...

Posted Dec 5, 2024 17:21 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link] (2 responses)

Note that as of today, 6.12 is now listed in the longterm release table, with the same end of life as all the other recent LTS versions: i.e., Dec 2026. So there are currently no "ultra life" kernels with a projected lifetime beyond 2 years.

Lack of ultra-LTS kernels

Posted Dec 6, 2024 9:07 UTC (Fri) by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188) [Link] (1 responses)

A corollary of LTS kernels only being supported for 2 years is that any product containing Linux and supported for longer than that will need one or more major kernel upgrades over its life. I hope this will force more upstreaming of drivers.

Lack of ultra-LTS kernels

Posted Dec 6, 2024 12:46 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]

Why can't they just backport fixed themselves anymore? Like most distros with long term releases have been doing since forever?