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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T22:37:28.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Linus has released 7.0-rc4 for testing.\n\n> Then Thursday hit with the networking pull. And then on Friday everybody else decided to send in their work for the week, with a few more trickling in over the weekend. End result: what had for a short few days looked like a nice calm week turned into another \"bigger than usual\" release candidate.\n>\n> To be fair, that \"almost everything comes in at the end of the week\" is 100% normal, and none of this is surprising. I was admittedly hoping that things would start to calm down, but that was not to be.\n>\n> I no longer really believe that it was the one extra week we had last release cycle: I'm starting to suspect it's the psychological result of \"hey, new major number\", and people are just being a bit more active as a result.",
  "title": "Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc4"
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