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Kernel prepatch 5.9-rc1

([Kernel] Aug 16, 2020 21:24 UTC (Sun) (corbet))


Linux has [1]released the 5.9-rc1 kernel prepatch and closed the merge window for this development cycle. " This merge window felt a lot more normal than 5.8, and all the stats confirm that it seems to be the usual size. " In the end, 12,866 non-merge changesets were pulled for 5.9-rc1, as compared to 14,206 for 5.8-rc1.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/828894/

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