Development statistics for the 6.5 kernel
The 6.5 kernel was released on August 27 after a nine-week development cycle. By that time, some 13,561 non-merge changesets had found their way into the mainline repository, the lowest number seen since the 5.15 release (12,377 changesets) in late 2021. Nonetheless, quite a bit of significant work was done in this cycle; read on for a look at where that work came from.
1,921 Developers contributed to 6.5, a slightly lower number than usual; 271 of those developers made their first kernel contribution for this release.