Summary<\/p>\n
Team members working alongside upstream (and downstream) developer Greg k-h have decided to no longer request stabilization of the vanilla sources kernel. Team members and arch teams (understandably) are unable to keep up with the 1-2 weekly kernel releases (per version), and therefore will now direct users to always run the latest vanilla sources, or to run gentoo-sources for a fully Gentoo supported kernel. We will continue to do our best effort to request and get stabilized g-s versions.<\/p>\n
Details<\/p>\n
Some facts:<\/p>\n
1. Upstream release rate is now a much higher 1-2 kernels a week.
\n2. Very frequently, these releases contain security fixes.
\n3. This rate of release puts arch teams in a difficult position, since\u00a0it is unsustainable to try to keep up to date with stabilization
\n4. By continuing the policy of providing a stable vanilla kernel version, Gentoo is giving a false sense of security to its users, since by the time the
\nkernel does get stabilized, a newer version with more security fixes is almost always already released<\/p>\n
Eventually, we will be updating our project pages to reflect these changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summary Team members working alongside upstream (and downstream) developer Greg k-h have decided to no longer request stabilization of the vanilla sources kernel. Team members and arch teams (understandably) are unable to keep up with the 1-2 weekly kernel releases…
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