Post Syndicated from daroc original https://lwn.net/Articles/1102739/

The 7.4 merge window, which
closed on November 1,
included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets.
That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of
those, 11,838 landed after the article covering the
first part of the merge window. Most of those were bug fixes of
various forms; it seems as though bug fixes may be crowding out feature
additions across the open-source ecosystem to
some extent. Still, a good number of new features were included, and a handful
removed, in the tail end of the merge window.