From 71035355cc5bbe9a81a9a3f4a7b1fc098f5e159b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Taisei Washington Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:38:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated (some) kernel release numbers --- modules/ROOT/pages/kernel/overview.adoc | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/kernel/overview.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/kernel/overview.adoc index 0795353..60178ec 100644 --- a/modules/ROOT/pages/kernel/overview.adoc +++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/kernel/overview.adoc @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Stable releases of Fedora receive two types of kernel updates. ==== Stable kernel updates The upstream kernel community support the latest major version with stable -updates (4.y.z releases). These updates are released approximately once a week, +updates (5.y.z releases). These updates are released approximately once a week, although they can occur more or less frequently. Once the upstream kernel community makes a stable release, Fedora builds it and submits it as an update to https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=kernel[Bodhi]. These @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ submitted to the stable updates repository. ==== Major kernel updates -The Linux kernel releases new major versions (4.y releases) +The Linux kernel releases new major versions (5.y releases) http://phb-crystal-ball.org/[every few months]. When this occurs, Fedora updates to the new major version after a couple upstream stable releases. When the updates are submitted to Bodhi, more time is allowed for testing than stable @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Stable and Branched kernels always disable the debugging options. Rawhide kernels enable the debugging options. However, each release candidate kernel is built with debugging options disabled. Release candidate kernels can be recognized by their release field, which always has the git revision set -to 0. For example, ``kernel-4.16.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc28`` is the 7th release +to 0. As an example, ``kernel-4.16.0-0.rc7.git0.1.fc28`` is the 7th release candidate kernel for Fedora 28.