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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Headline is a bit misleading... This is just Tails updating to the latest LTS kernel, which has the security fix (which many other distributions have done).
This update is a good thing, but the headline made it sound like the Tails project was contributing a fix to the kernel.
Anyway, thanks for sharing.
Agree, I opened the link because I thought the same thing
is it any better now?
I personally still find it a little confusing. Maybe something like "Tails updates to Linux Kernel 5.16.1 to fix critical vulnerability"