Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

[lee]

Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> writes:

> On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, lee wrote:
>> For which use cases can you predict that you will be fine with the same
>> software for the next ten years?
>
> Why were new releases required?

New releases are a means to limit the lifetime of the already existing
ones.  This is required because there are a release schedule and limited
resources:

"Historically, the Fedora Project has found supporting two releases plus
Rawhide and the pre-release Branched code to be a manageable work
load."[1]


[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedule

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