[Bender]

I'm with you and I like the way Alpine Linux does it.

Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.21

Those are recent major releases. Minor releases will look like 3.21.1, 3.21.2. [1] It's even used in their news and feature enhancements, updates. People can control their major releases with one file. Going from 3.20 to 3.21 was straight forward and I knew my machines would go from the 6.6 LTS kernel to the 6.12 LTS kernel. Edge is for the latest testing bleeding edge packages. I use Alpine on all my physical and virtual machines in the cloud, home router/firewall, NAS, etc... Everything is consistent, simple and clean. Boring, the way I like it.

    cat /etc/apk/repositories 
    #/media/sdb/apks
    http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/main
    http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/community
    #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main
    #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
    #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing

    bender [~]# apk update && apk upgrade --available

[1] - https://alpinelinux.org/