On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > Does anyone know why the latest stable version of Gentoo-sources is 4.9.xx ? > I installed 4.9.16 , which I continue to use, on 2017-04-06 . > The tree contains versions of 4.14 4.16 4.17 , but all are still testing. >
I believe that some had been complaining about stability issues with 4.14, but personally I've been fine with it, and since I have a Ryzen CPU I want something that has the SMT support enabled. 4.9 is a longterm series, but the current upstream release is 4.9.110, and the Gentoo stable release is 4.9.95, so you seem to be pretty far behind. From a security standpoint a /recent/ 4.9 kernel should be fine. The gentoo patches do sometimes fix things and their curation might help you avoid some issues, but personally I tend to just use my own upstream kernels. I'm following the 4.14 longterm and generally update within a few days of any release. That said, I have been burned by the odd regression (a build last week actually was rebooting on me, which usually isn't something I have trouble with). Usually I migrate to a new longterm after it has been out for a few months, and only if it has zfs support. I don't know what the Gentoo plans are for 4.14 - I know they've been avoiding it for a while. I'm not sure if they ever plan to move to it, or if they're just hoping to skip it entirely. I think we should be getting a new longterm sometime in the next few months. -- Rich
