Linus Torvalds released
6.5-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle on
July 9. By that point, 11,730 non-merge changesets had been pulled
into the mainline for 6.5; over 7,700 of those were pulled after
the first-half merge-window summary was
written. The second half of the merge window saw a lot of code coming into
the mainline and a long list of significant changes.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The rest of the 6.5 merge window