Re: Linux 5.3-rc1

[Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>]

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Here we go Linus! :) 

On 14:33 Sun 21 Jul , Linus Torvalds wrote:
>It's been two weeks, and the merge window is over, and Linux 5.3-rc1
>is tagged and pushed out.
>
>This is a pretty big release, judging by the commit count. Not the
>biggest ever (that honor still goes to 4.9-rc1, which was
>exceptionally big), and we've had a couple of comparable ones (4.12,
>4.15 and 4.19 were also big merge windows), but it's definitely up
>there.
>
>The merge window also started out pretty painfully, with me hitting a
>couple of bugs in the first couple of days. That's never a good sign,
>since I don't tend to do anything particularly odd, and if I hit bugs
>it means code wasn't tested well enough. In one case it was due to me
>using a simplified configuration that hadn't been tested, and caused
>an odd issue to show up - it happens. But in the other case, it really
>was code that was too recent and too rough and hadn't baked enough.
>The first got fixed, the second just got reverted.
>
>Anyway, despite the rocky start, and the big size, things mostly
>smoothed out towards the end of the merge window. And there's a lot to
>like in 5.3. Too much to do the shortlog with individual commits, of
>course, so appended is the usual "mergelog" of people I merged from
>and a one-liner very high-level "what got merged". For more detail,
>you should go check the git tree.
>
>As always: the people credited below are just the people I pull from,
>there's about 1600 individual developers (for 12500+ non-merge
>commits) in this merge window.
>
>Go test,
>
>            Linus
>
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