Linus has sent out 3.19-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release one day earlier than some might have expected. “Considering how much came in fairly late, I find it hard to care about anybody who had decided to cut it even closer than some people already did. That said, maybe there aren’t any real stragglers – and judging by the size of rc1, there really can’t have been much.” In the end, 11,408 non-merge changesets were pulled into the mainline during this development cycle.
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