On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 2:34 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 04:04:59PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> In the wild, I often see Fedora described as a "semi-rolling" release. As a
> policy matter, the distribution promises to be mostly stable, but I find it
> increasingly hard to honestly present it as such.
>
> As a couple of quick examples, I'd point out that in Fedora 35, Blender
> updated from 2.93 (an LTS version) to version 3. In Fedora 36, Emacs
> updated from version 27 to 28. I've read in the KDE Matrix channel that KDE
> will be updated in Fedora 36 to 5.26, even though it has already been
> updated from 5.24 -> 5.25 (my reading of the KDE update policy is that
> Fedora used to update all releases with every KDE release, but decided to
> stop). Firefox and Thunderbird get updates in most releases, even when they
> contain API-breaking changes (those really should have an explicit
> exception, IMHO.) I could offer more, but my point is simply that examples
> of updates in prominent packages isn't hard to find.

FWIW, I was sure that we have an explicit exception for Firefox. But
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#exceptions-list
doesn't list it.

Although not explicitly stated there, Firefox is mentioned as a first example in https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#examples. Also nearly all Firefox and Thunderbird updates there are the security ones there really isn't another way (unless someone will package Firefox ESR releases in Fedora, but that would need to be rebased yearly anyway).

Tom