Kernel release status

I think we had a fairly normal merge window, although I did get the feeling that there were a few more "late straggler" pull requests than usual. Not to a huge degree, but there was definitely an upward bump at the end of the second week.

But on the whole, all the stats look pretty normal.

Stable updates: 6.15.2, 6.14.11, and 6.12.33 were released on June 10. Note that this is the end of the line for the 6.14.x updates; Greg Kroah-Hartman explained the timing of this move:

If you notice, this has happened a bit more "early" than previous end-of-life announcements. Normally, after -rc1 is out there is a TON of stable patches happening due to the changes that come into the merge-window that were marked for stable backports but didn't get into Linus's release before -final. As some people have objected to this large influx being added to a stable kernel that is just about to go end-of-life, let's try marking this end-of-life a bit earlier to see how it goes.