"We haven't done releases based on features (or on "stable vs unstable") for a long, long time now. So that new major number does *not* mean that we have some big new exciting feature, or that we're somehow leaving old interfaces behind. It's the usual "solid progress" marker, nothing more."
""I don't have a solid plan for when the major number itself gets big," he admitted, "by that time, I expect that we'll have somebody more competent in charge who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens. So I'm not going to worry about it.""
""You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the kernel merge window is closed," "We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers.""
Linus Torvalds marked the release of Linux 7.0 rc1 and acknowledged the major version number choice as arbitrary and based on personal preference. Releases are not feature-based and the new major number does not signal breaking changes or abandoned interfaces. The plan is to end each series at x.19 before advancing to y.0, a cadence of about 3.5 years. There is no concrete plan for handling very large major numbers, with an expectation of eventual succession. The recent merge window was fairly smooth, defined by absence of bisected boot failures.
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