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The 5.19-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.

We obviously had that whole “Retbleed” thing, and it does show up
in both the diffstat and the shortlog, and rc7 is definitely bigger
than usual. And also as usual, when we’ve had one of those
embargoed hw issues pending, the patches didn’t get the open
development, and then as a result missed all the usual sanity
checking by all the automation build and test infrastructure we
have. So no surprise – there’s been various small fixup patches
afterwards too for some corner cases.

That said, last week there were two other development trees that
independently also asked for an extension, so 5.19 will be one of
those releases that have an additional rc8 next weekend before the
final release.