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…
Can you point to an instance that actually happened?
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.