Backporting has a number of advantages, but it can create confusion when it is not understood. What is Red Hat Backporting and this below quoted example from that link explains this further. So the idea of "newer rpm" without keeping backporting in mind is a bit of a misnomer. There are certainly higher number versions in the open-source editions, however, with backporting, Red Hat cherry picks open-source project editions of given software such as Apache and often does not bring over the same inherent security flaws such as this example with log4j Red Hat Linux itself was not vulnerable, see this link where the parent Open Source project WAS vulnerable, the former link shows Red Hat's backported edition was not. To answer your question (scrolling up higher in this discussion).
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