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Linus has released 6.14-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release.

This is actually a _tiny_ merge window, and that’s ok. The holidays
clearly meant that people did less development than during a normal
cycle, and that then shows up as a much smaller-than-average
release. I really felt like this year we got the whole holiday
season release timing right, and this is just another sign of that.