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Linus Torvalds released
6.1-rc1 and closed the 6.1 merge window on
October 16; at that point, 11,537 non-merge changesets had been pulled
into the mainline repository. That is considerably less than the 13,543
changesets pulled during the 6.0 merge window, but quantity is not
everything: there were quite a few significant changes brought in this time
around. Many of those were part of the nearly 5,800 changesets pulled
since our first 6.1 merge window summary;
read on for a look at some of the work done in the latter part of this
merge window.