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Sasha Levin, one of the maintainers of the stable kernels, gave a
presentation at
Open
Source Summit North America 2021 on a proposal for a different way to
handle the stable tree. He noted that throughout most of the kernel’s history,
version numbers did not really mean anything, but that the versioning
scheme suggests that they do, which leads to a disconnect between how the
kernels are seen versus how they are actually maintained. He proposed
making a “rolling stable” release that
provides users what they need—timely fixes to their kernel—without forcing
them to choose to switch to a new version number.