Growing major version
Growing major version
Posted Feb 13, 2026 20:22 UTC (Fri) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)In reply to: Growing major version by mb
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window
I'm in favor of date-based version numbers. E.g. <year>.<month>.<sequencenumber>. Makes it clear that there's no meaning to the major/minor parts other than when the kernel was released. It has the benefit that you can always immediately see how old a kernel is. The numbers will grow quite big, especially if you use 4 digits for the year, but I don't really see that as a problem when the numbers have meaning.
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