[$] The rest of the 6.12 merge window Linus Torvalds <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHk-=wiwVOCZsC6a4dLdb1UjL2fS_CnLNjrPL0XGFbDd9C26Cg@mail.gmail.com/" rel="nofollow">released 6.12-rc1</a> and closed the 6.12 merge window on September 29; at that point, 11,260 non-merge change sets had been pulled into the mainline for the 6.12 release. That is the lowest number of merge-window changes since 5.17-rc1 in January 2022, which brought in 11,068 changesets. Nonetheless, 6.12 brings a number of interesting changes, many of which were included in the roughly 4,500 changes merged since <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/990750/" rel="nofollow">the summary of the first half of the 6.12 merge window</a> was written. https://lwn.net/Articles/991301/