{
  "id": 17835982,
  "title": "[$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/the-second-part-of-the-7-4-merge-window",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-02T17:51:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1102739/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets. That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of those, 11,838 landed after the article covering the first part of the merge window . Most of those were bug fixes of various forms; it seems as though bug fixes may be crowding out…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}