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Linus Torvalds released
5.17-rc1 and closed the 5.17 merge window on January 23 after
having pulled just over 11,000 non-merge changesets into the mainline
repository. A little over 4,000 of those changesets arrived after our first-half merge-window summary was
written. Activity thus slowed down, as expected, in the second half of the
merge window, but there still a number of significant changes that made it
in for the next kernel release.