The Linux 6.15 merge window has been capped off with the Linux 6.15-rc1 test kernel having been just released.
Linus Torvalds just announced the 6.15-rc1 kernel. He commented:
“It’s been two weeks, and the merge window is now over.
As expected, this was one of the bigger merge windows, almost certainly just because we had some pent-up development due to the previous releases being impacted by the holiday season.
That said, while it’s bigger than normal, it’s not some kind of record-breaking thing: we’ve had bigger releases, although not many. The really big releases tend to be due to some long-running major development being finally merged after many years, and this is not that: this is just the “regular” kind of big.
It’s big in both number of commits and in lines…