Kernel prepatch 4.8-rc1
Linus has released the 4.8-rc1 prepatch andclosed the merge window for this development cycle - sort of. "Iactually still have a few pull requests pending in my inbox that I justwanted to take another look at before merging, but the large bulk of themerge window material has been merged, and I wanted to make sure therearen't any new ones coming in." A total of 11,618 non-mergechangesets were pulled during the merge window.