That&#x27;s the problem with frozen releases. Upstream just moves ahead with new versions, but the distro insists on keeping the same version and only backporting a few patches.<p>This might make sense for core packages that need to present a stable API throughout the lifecycle of an LTS release, but it creates a whole bunch of needless work for maintainers of other packages (who are often the same people who work upstream). Frozen distros are essentially telling them to create a frankenversion of their own program, one for each distro, based on some arbitrary version from several months or even years ago.<p>Until a few years ago, most distros shipped a frozen version of Firefox and only backported important fixes. Ubuntu finally gave up and started shipping new versions of Firefox as soon as Mozilla releases them. I think they need to do the same with most of the packages in &quot;universe&quot;, too, including the vast majority of GUI apps. No backporting, just pull the new version, build it, and run some tests. It would save a lot of duplicate work that every upstream is already doing, at negligible cost to the stability of the LTS release as a whole.