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The 6.1 kernel was released
on December 11; by the time of this release, 13,942 non-merge
changesets had been pulled into the mainline, growing the kernel by 412,000
lines of code. This is thus not the busiest development cycle ever, but
neither is it the slowest, and those changesets contained a number of
fundamental changes. This release will also be the long-term-support
kernel for 2022. Read on for a look at where the work in 6.1 came from.