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The
eighth
and presumably final 6.2 kernel prepatch has been released.

The 6.2 series continues to be fairly calm, and the only real
reason for an rc8 is – as now mentioned several times – just to
make up for some time during the holiday season. Not that we seem
to really have needed it, but there was also no real reason to
deviate from the plan. So here we are.