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Linus has released 7.3-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release. “Nothing really stands out – except for
the fact that it’s big. It’s not the biggest rc1 we’ve ever had, but it’s
certainly up there, at least in number of commits.” He pulled 15,267
commits during this merge window, making it the second busiest ever; only
6.7 has exceeded it.