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The 5.12 merge window closed with the release of 5.12-rc1
on February 28; this released followed the normal schedule despite the
fact that Linus Torvalds had been without power for the first six days
after 5.11 came out. At that point, 10,886 non-merge changesets had found
their way into the mainline repository; about 2,000 of those showed up
after the first-half merge-window summary
was written. The pace of merging obviously slowed down, but there were
still a number of interesting features to be found in those patches.