I’m willing to bet that if the GNU coreutils getting bumped a minor version caused widespread issues for a day, nobody would even bother reporting in it…
Minor releases aren’t beta. By any convention they should be fully tested, final releases. And if gnu core utils broke systems in a minor release you better believe it would make it to some news.
The instability of choosing a beta software for the literal core of your operating system is kind of the point.
I’m willing to bet that if the GNU coreutils getting bumped a minor version caused widespread issues for a day, nobody would even bother reporting in it…
Do you REALLY think that?
… Yeah? Beta software having bugs isn’t the hottest of takes.
Ubuntu 25.10 entered beta on September 18th. It releases on October 9th. It’s still in beta.
Can you point to an instance that actually happened?