Lots of kernels

Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2026 19:35:17 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello, Gentoo.

Has anybody else noticed that we're getting rather a lot of
gentoo-sources kernels in recent codebase updates?

It seems we're getting around one every two days, completely unmasked.
For example, gentoo-sources-6.18.26 was released on 2026-05-01, 6.18.32
today, and no version in between was keyworded.  That's 7 versions in
the space of 17 days.

This doesn't particularly bother me, but I am somewhat puzzled.
Recently there have been quite a few high ranking vulnerabilities
discovered in Linux, and I'm wondering if all these kernels contain
fixes for these.  But I keep a clone of the Linux "stable" sources, and
there is no mention of these CVEs in the clone's log files.

Can anybody shed any light on this?

Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).