A really interesting thing about the Linux development lifecycle I learned from this (emphasis added):
A really interesting thing about the Linux development lifecycle I learned from this (emphasis added):
In the beginning, stable updates were restricted to critical fixes only, but the rules were relaxed over time. The patches merged for stable updates now are often automatically selected using a machine-learning system; others are picked because they look like they fix something somewhere. The result has been a massive increase in the number of patches going into the stable updates; the 5.9.x series has had over 1,900 patches applied through 5.9.11, while the delta between 4.9 and 4.9.246 is well over 18,000 patches.
A really interesting thing about the Linux development lifecycle I learned from this (emphasis added):