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The 5.19 kernel was released,
after a one-week delay to deal with the fallout from the Retbleed
mitigations, on July 31. By that time, 16,399 commits (15,134
non-merge and 1,265 merges) had found their way into the mainline
repository, making this development cycle the busiest since 5.13 (16,030
non-merge changesets and 1,157 merges). Tradition dictates that now is the time for a look
at where the changes in 5.19 came from, and we’ve learned not to go against
tradition.