[$] The rest of the 6.6 merge window
Linus Torvalds released6.6-rc1 and closed the 6.6 merge window on September10. At thatpoint, 12,230 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainlinerepository, which is exactly 500 more than were pulled for 6.5 at this stagein the cycle. Over 7,000 of those changes were pulled after our first-half summary was written; theybrought a fair amount of new functionality with them. Read on for anoverview of those changes.