On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:01:08PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:52:05PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >I wouldn't be much surprised if you'd find that among those not introduced > >in the current merge window, many were introduced in the previous release. > > Interesting. Here it is for v4.16-rcX fixes that fix something > introduced before v4.14: > > rc1 30 > rc2 87 > rc3 51 > rc4 68 > rc5 23 > rc6 113 > rc7 61 > > So I'm not sure if what you described is really the case.
This is rather interesting and probably deserves some analysis or explanation. I agree that probably a number of the 61 fixes in rc7 could have cooked a little bit more if they fixed 5 months-old bugs. Willy