The fifth 3.17 prepatch is out. “So I should probably have delayed this until Wednesday for sentimental reasons: that will be 23 years since I uploaded the 0.01 source tree. But I’m not an overly sentimental person, so screw that. I’m doing my normal Sunday release.” Linus noted that this is a relatively large set of changes, so any thoughts of doing an early 3.17 release (to avoid conflicts between the merge window and his travel plans) have to be put aside.
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