Has Fedora changed its application software update policy?
by finalizer from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MGBK)
Hello,
One of the things that prevented me to switch from Windows to Fedora Linux was the application software update policy in there. For example when I tried to use Fedora 33 I was unable to upgrade most of such software into their current release versions. For example the Git package was never updated, except for a security related reason.
But now I see it's updating Git for the last three Fedora releases:
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/git/git/
According this web page the 2.45.0-1 version of the Git package is in testing stage for Fedora 40, 39 and 38.
This is good. But is all application software have the same update policy in Fedora now? If I throw away Windows 10 and install Fedora 40 will I get new versions of other applications? For example LibreOffice, JDK, Maven, Audacious music player, etc.? If there was change in the application software update policy could you point me to the official press release or at least to an email about that in some Fedora mailing list?
One of the things that prevented me to switch from Windows to Fedora Linux was the application software update policy in there. For example when I tried to use Fedora 33 I was unable to upgrade most of such software into their current release versions. For example the Git package was never updated, except for a security related reason.
But now I see it's updating Git for the last three Fedora releases:
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/git/git/
According this web page the 2.45.0-1 version of the Git package is in testing stage for Fedora 40, 39 and 38.
This is good. But is all application software have the same update policy in Fedora now? If I throw away Windows 10 and install Fedora 40 will I get new versions of other applications? For example LibreOffice, JDK, Maven, Audacious music player, etc.? If there was change in the application software update policy could you point me to the official press release or at least to an email about that in some Fedora mailing list?