The 6.17-rc1 prepatch was released by Linus Torvalds on August 10; the 6.17 merge window is now closed. There were 11,404 non-merge changesets pulled into the mainline this time around, a little over 7,000 of which came in after the first-half merge-window summary was written. As one would expect, quite a few changes and new features were included in that work.