The world got a special Christmas present from Linus Torvalds this year in
the form of the 6.2-rc1
kernel prepatch. By the time the merge window closed, 13,687 non-merge
changesets had been pulled into the mainline for the 6.2 release. This was
the busiest merge window since 5.13 (which brought in 14.231 changesets) in
mid-2021, and quite a bit busier than 6.1 was — but comparable to the late
5.x releases. Just under 4,000 of those changesets were pulled after the first-half summary was written; there were
quite a few significant changes to be found in those late-arriving patches.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The rest of the 6.2 merge window