Why is not every longterm kernel release marked as stable?

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mbar · Post by **mbar** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 7:21 am

Why stable gentoo kernels (like gentoo-kernel and gentoo-kernel-bin) are not marked stable after every upstream release?

Right now we have 6.12.47 as stable, but 6.12.48 and 49 as testing.

netfab · Post by **netfab** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 7:31 am

Why stable gentoo kernels (like gentoo-kernel and gentoo-kernel-bin) are not marked stable after every upstream release?

As a simple user, I do not want to be forced to update the kernel/drivers/bootloader stack every two weeks on regular @world updates.
The current process is perfectly fine for me. You are free to keywords the versions you want on your systems.

mbar · Post by **mbar** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 8:38 am

Thanks!

New at Gentoo · Post by **pietinger** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 10:07 am

mbar wrote:Why stable gentoo kernels (like gentoo-kernel and gentoo-kernel-bin) are not marked stable after every upstream release?

How to enable EVERY release of the current LTS kernel is described here (maybe you already know it):
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti ... LTS_series

mbar · Post by **mbar** » Mon Sep 29, 2025 12:50 pm

Thanks, I was looking for something like this (some kind of an official guide how to do it).
For now I added =sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.12* ~amd64 atom to accept_keywords.

Post by **sam_** » Thu Oct 02, 2025 1:16 am

There's often regressions in-between as well.