Distrowatch tracks some packages of their choice across distros and their releases:
When looking at the unstable column, presumably set for 24.11 release, I notice some not green nor red entries.
What is the rationale of some crucial-sounding packages seemingly not yet updated to the latest and greatest? Like Kmod v33 released in August, OpenSSH 9.9 from September and both OpenSSL 3.4 + Samba 4.21 from October?
Openssh was updated weeks ago: openssh, openssh_hpn, openssh_gssapi: 9.8p1 -> 9.9p1 by LeSuisse · Pull Request #350699 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
It just hasn’t made it to unstable yet.
Haha, they mark firefox red because ours is newer than what they have data for.
I wouldn’t take this website too seriously.
If you want proper stats on package versions with proper foundations, you should instead use https://repology.org/.
I especially like this graph where they map number of packages to the number of packages that are up to date: Graphs - Repology.