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The 5.9 kernel was
released on October 11, at the end of a ten-week development cycle —
the first release to take more than nine weeks since 5.4 at the end of 2019.
While this cycle was not as busy as 5.8, which
broke some records, it was still one of the busier ones we have seen
in some time, featuring 14,858 non-merge changesets contributed by 1,914
developers. Read on for our traditional look at what those developers were
up to while creating the 5.9 release.