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The first 5.17 kernel prepatch is out for
testing, and the merge window is closed for this release.

5.17 doesn’t seem to be slated to be a huge release, and everything
looks fairly normal. We’ve got a bit more activity than usual in a
couple of corners of the kernel (random number generator and the
fscache rewrite stand out), but even with those things, the big
picture view looks very much normal: the bulk is various driver
updates, with architectures updates, documentation, and tooling
being the bulk of the rest.