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Linux 5.9 Released

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Linus Torvalds
Oct 11, 2020
Ok, so I'll be honest - I had hoped for quite a bit fewer changes thislast week, but at the same time there doesn't really seem to beanything particularly scary in here. It's just more commits and morelines changed than I would have wished for.The bulk of this is the networking fixes that I already mentioned asbeing pending in the rc8 release notes last weekend. In fact, abouthalf the patch (and probably more of the number of commits) is fromthe networking stuff (both drivers and elsewhere).Outside of that, the most visible thing is a reinstatement of thefbdev amba-clcd driver - that's a noticeable patch, but it's basicallyjust mainly a revert.The rest is really really tiny (mostly some other minor driverupdates, but some filesystem and architecture fixes too). There's justa bit more of those kinds of tiny details than there should be fo thiskind of last delayed week. But since nothing in there gives me anyparticular reason to delay another week, here we are.That obviously means that the merge window for 5.10 is open, and I'llstart doing those pulls tomorrow. I already have a couple of pullspending, but I hope people take the time to just do one last test ofthe final 5.9 release.So go get it.              Linus
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Linus Torvalds

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