The linux-stable security tree project
Sasha Levin has announced the creation of the "linux-stable security tree"
project. The idea is to take the current stable updates and filter out
everything that isn't identified as a security fix. "Quite a few
users of the stable trees pointed out that on complex deployments, where
validation is non-trivial, there is little incentive to follow the stable
tree after the product has been deployed to production. There is no
interest in 'random' kernel fixes and the only requirements are to keep up
with security vulnerabilities."