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Linus Torvalds released
6.6-rc1 and closed the 6.6 merge window on September 10. At that
point, 12,230 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline
repository, which is exactly 500 more than were pulled for 6.5 at this stage
in the cycle. Over 7,000 of those changes were pulled after our first-half summary was written; they
brought a fair amount of new functionality with them. Read on for an
overview of those changes.