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The "big or disruptive changes" have to go in sometime, and crash bugs are often documented before they are fixed...

> If you are planning big or disruptive change, check the timeline to see if it's still realistic to finish them before the transition freeze.

This might have been a better link to post. The freeze happens in stages "transition freeze / soft freeze / full freeze"

https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html

Anyway I phrased that all wrong. I meant to say, that if it doesn't crash as much for you, you can expect that to stay the same throughout the stable release. The changes are universally where the new bugs are coming from. So it follows that you should expect less new bugs, because there are so few changes allowed in the stable distro.

Security fixes and Updates are delivered separately. I don't know this process inside and out but I've been exposed to it for 20 years, here are some more good current links:

https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates

https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases

> Even stable is updated once in a while. Those updates are called "Point Releases". They usually incorporate the security fixes released until the time of the update and fixes for grave bugs in the current release.




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