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Linus has released 5.18-rc1 and closed the
merge window for the 5.18 release. “In fact, at least in pure
commits, this has been a bigger merge window than we’ve had in some
time. But let’s hope it’s all smooth sailing this release.” In the
end, 13,207 non-merge changesets were merged during this merge window.