more time to bake
more time to bake
Posted Aug 17, 2026 2:51 UTC (Mon) by rolexhamster (guest, #158445)Parent article: The 7.2 kernel has been released
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this last week of the release was - once again - bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole "new normal" thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we'd probably never have a release at all.
That sounds like a cop-out. If the kernel needs more a little more time to bake, then so be it. The quality of recent .0 releases has anectodally dropped compared to say 6 to 12 months ago.
Maybe all the recent LLM based bug "finding" is correcting some surface-level symptoms, while at the same time destabilizing the codebase via subtly breaking tacit or under-documented assumptions and data flows.
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