Subj : you can stop drivin' nails in your coffin
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Feb 02 2025 12:27:06

Hey Maurice!

On Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:05:10 , you wrote ..

 >> That seemed abnormally quick.

 > Not really.  According to kernel.org;

 > mainline:   6.13          2025-01-19
 > stable:     6.13.1        2025-02-01

But then you had 6.12.11 on Jan 23 and 6.12.12 on Feb 1 in between? What's the reasoning with all that?

 > I haven't had a chance to check.  It just so happened to present itself
 > (6.13.1) when I was upgrading one of the four machines I am working on.
 > So far twon of them are both running 6.12.11 since 6.12.12 hadn't
 > presented itself until yesterday, which was after I upgraded them to
 > 6.12.11.  I still have one more machine to get up to date, and it will
 > probably be a 6.12.12 kernel which is listed as 'stable'.

I'm guessing 6.12.x is still receiving security patches or something while 6.13.x is now currently being worked on? I don't know their versioning scheme, which is the only reason I'm asking.

Regards,
Nick

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