everything is a trade-off

Posted Aug 10, 2024 7:30 UTC (Sat) by alspnost (guest, #2763)
In reply to: everything is a trade-off by Baughn
Parent article: A new kernel-version policy for Ubuntu

No, LTS releases don't run LTS kernels. Ubuntu 24.04 should really have run with kernel 6.6, but instead they used kernel 6.8, which is long since EOL, so they have to keep patching it themselves. Upstream has abandoned it. But when 24.10 comes out, they'll make HWE packages for 24.04 based on the new kernel (which again, probably won't be an LTS. I'm assuming it'll be 6.11 but judging by this it might now be 6.12-rc....

everything is a trade-off

Posted Aug 10, 2024 14:05 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

That could make the weird result of 23.10 having, say, 6.7 yet to get an LTS-on-LTS, 24.04 would *revert* to 6.6. Which is probably better for the LTS-ness, but is quite odd. I understand that the <even>.04-is-LTS is a nice indicator, but maybe some better planning could be involved…or LTS-ness is decided based on maintainability after a .1 rather than "happens to be released in a certain date pattern".

everything is a trade-off

Posted Aug 15, 2024 10:46 UTC (Thu) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link]

The downside of that would be that people who want an LTS kernel are generally the same people who value a predictable schedule for their next upgrade...