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KERNEL WATCH

Linus Torvalds closed the merge window for kernel 5.13, and released a series of Release Candidate kernels that have since settled down and stabilised ahead of the final release. Linus noted that there were “1,800+ developers and 14k+ non-merge [non-administrative] commits”, which is on the larger side as Linux development cycles go. Still, it’s been a fairly calm cycle so far without the usual kinds of scurrying that can happen by

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