To phrase the title in a different way; if I am on Kinoite or Silverblue 40 and 41 drops, I don’t need to upgrade right away - I can wait until it stabilizes or issues for my specific hardware are resolved and still get security patches for 40 up to release 42 comes out.
Is that possible for Bazzite or is more a rolling release cycle? When Fedora 41 drops could I hang around on a version of Bazzite pinned to Fedora 40 or a specific major version of Bazzite?
Reading the docs it sounds like the latter, which makes a lot of sense for a smaller team with less resources to support multiple live release, but wanted to confirm.
:40 won’t receive updates anymore. People tend to rollback to older images if major regressions happen especially since we support a ton of handhelds that usually hate an AMD driver or kernel change. It is advised to eventually rebase back to :stable once that regression you encountered occurred.
For what you’re asking about upgrading right away, but the entire point of using Bazzite/Bluefin/Aurora on a desktop is to have the updates happen automatically and if there is an issue, rollback.
I used Silverblue for bit and the rollbacks are pretty magical. The limitation, at least as far as I understand it, if say update 1.1 includes something that breaks your setup you can go back to 1.0, but if there is a critical security fix in 1.1 you are vulnerable until you can update.
Whereas in this instance, Fedora would keep updating 1.0 with critical security vulnerabilities for a bit.