On Tue, Jan 16, 2024, at 4:43 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 1/9/24 11:23 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote: >> The words “Integer constants follow the C language >> definition, without suffixes or character constants” were not added to the >> manual until June 2019 in the Devel branch (as commit >> 48492ffae22d692594757e53fb4580ebb1f506cf), and did not land in the Master >> branch until December 2020 (as commit >> 8868edaf2250e09c4e9a1c75ffe3274f28f38581). > > [...] > >> Ubuntu LTS users would then have >> first had a chance to read them in April 2022. > > That seems like an Ubuntu problem. I understand they have to lag -- the > aforementioned RHEL 7 issue is just the worst example of vendors shipping > old releases -- but 16 months seems like a pretty big gap. I don't use > Ubuntu, but I figure they make releases more often than that.
LTS releases drop every two years, with interim releases every six months in between. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle -- vq
