Kernel release status
Not as small as -rc2, but that one really was unusually calm. So there was clearly some pending stuff that came in for -rc3, with network drivers and USB leading the charge. But there's other misc drivers, arch updates, btrfs fixes, etc etc too."
Stable updates:
3.8.3, 3.4.36, and 3.0.69 were released on March 14,
and
3.8.4, 3.4.37,
3.2.41, and 3.0.70 came out on March 20.