more time to bake
more time to bake
Posted Aug 18, 2026 1:40 UTC (Tue) by rolexhamster (guest, #158445)In reply to: more time to bake by csamuel
Parent article: The 7.2 kernel has been released
At the risk of stating a tautology, a new kernel release is just a time point at which more testing starts, while the development of a new kernel continues in parallel.
In my experience, a new kernel is mostly derisked by about the 10th update. In other words, kernel 7.2 is not really going to be "stable" until 7.2.10 or so.
Of course, one can use LTS kernels which have a lower rate of change, but the current seemingly ad-hoc process of backporting fixes introduces risks as well, as recently experienced. There should definitely be more judicious selection of what to fix and what to backport.
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