> Below is the shortlog for the last week. It's nice and small - not only was there no last-minute issue yesterday, the whole last week was pretty calm. The patch is dominated by some amd gpu updates, and even those are pretty small. The rest is random small changes all over.
Funny that Linus himself doesn't consider much in the release noteworthy besides the GPU stuff, yet the submission article goes on about "leaps", "big news" and "major step".
What you're quoting Linus on is his commentary about the patches landing in the past week, which is supposed to be only bug fixes as the code stabilizes enough for a stable release to be made. New features would lane weeks earlier during the merge window. What's newsworthy here is not anything that was merged recently, just the fact that this new functionality is now available from a stable release.
If there was anything really significant from the past week's changelog, it would likely have been reason to delay the stable release for at least another week.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg7TO09Si5tTPyhdrLLvyYtVm...
Funny that Linus himself doesn't consider much in the release noteworthy besides the GPU stuff, yet the submission article goes on about "leaps", "big news" and "major step".