2026-10-31 19:37 UTC
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-10-31 19:53
It shows that the CVE fixes were consistent during the last 2.5 years and 14 releases. And with the recent rise of Ai usage in the Kernel, this bump aligns. commit frequency bump compared to 5.0 and 6.0 releases Why 5.0 and 5.0, those are ancient. This goes back to 6.9 from May 2024, where Ai usage in the Kernel wasn’t a thing until the recent few releases.
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@laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2026-11-01 23:55
As others have mentioned, 5.0 and 6.0 and 7.0 are really just version bumps the same as any other with no extra meaning beyond “we got tired of being stuck on 2.6 for 8 years and decided we’re not doing that anymore”. It’s not using semantic versioning and hasn’t since 2011… Realistically, it hasn’t since 2003 seeing as they spent 8 years without any single release being “big enough” to bump even the minor version number, let alone the major. Honestly, if they were still using that criteria from the pre-3.0 era, we’d probably be on something like 2.6.100 right now