Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/948970/

The 6.6 kernel was released,
right on schedule, on October 29. This development cycle saw the
addition of 14,069 non-merge changesets from 1,978 developers — fairly
typical numbers for recent releases. The time has come for LWN’s
traditional look at where the changes in this release came from, along with
a look at the longer development “supercycle” that (probably) ends with
6.6.