Arch Kernel Updates extremely delayed?

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@ricklinux

testing repo if you don’t want to wait until they are released from testing.

I already am on testing. but like mentioned in the OP, even testing is 3 point releases behind …

@dalto

Not every kernel point release addresses important vulnerabilities. Are you aware of any critical vulnerabilities in that point series?

at least 5.13.3 and 5.12.18 fixed a CVE, yes, no critical one, but still

@ricklinux

I don’t know that every single point release is always put out? I thought sometimes they just move to the next kernel release if it’s that close and all is good?

of course when a new major series is released, they stop updates to the old one as soon as the new one is appearing in testing. That happened 10 days ago on July 10, already with a 13 day delay (5.13 was released on June 27). Since then, testing has missed 2 releases, 3 with todays release, and stable missed 3 releases, 4 with todays.
5.14 is at least 5 weeks away, so they really should not wait for that.

Edit: Just to make sure, I don’t blame heftig for not updating THE core package of the arch distribution. At this point, it is relatively obvious that he has some issues that prevent him from updating it. I blame the other Arch maintainers for not taking over, and wanted to know if there is any information that I missed that explains why they don’t update the kernel.