One of the things that really annoy me yes. :) Pretty much every nginx release is run-time stable, really the only difference is that the mainline branch is no

One of the things that really annoy me yes. :) Pretty much every nginx release is run-time stable, really the only difference is that the mainline branch is not API stable. Good luck convincing package managers of that, though. So usually you end up running an old version just because of convention.