342 updates on new Breezy

[sjoeboo]

Albert wrote:
> As a new user of Ubuntu, I am still trying to understand what's going 
> on.  Immediately upon installing 5.10, I was notified of 342 updates 
> pending.  I waited until this morning to install them.  It appeared to 
> me that everything from the kernel to fonts, was updated.  I don't 
> understand how so many packages could require updating on a new 
> install.  Would someone please explain, or point me to appropriate docs?
> 

yes. you installed 5.10, aka,the ubuntu development version. althought 
it may seem very stable, its technically has not been released yet. 
meaning, that there could be a few hunder updates everyday untill 
release day (1st week of OCT.) you shouldn't notice any new features/UI 
changes, since there is a feature and string freeze in effect. These are 
mostly tiny little bug fixes. The updates "should" die down once it is 
release, because then only critical security updates will be handed out 
(excluding backports, of course)