Linus Torvalds released
the 5.8 kernel on August 2, concluding another nine-week
development cycle. By the time the work was done, 16,306 non-merge
changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this release.
That happens to be a record, beating the previous record holder (4.9,
released in December 2016) by 92 changesets. It was, in other words,
a busy development cycle. It’s time for our traditional look into where
that work came from to see what might be learned.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Some statistics from the 5.8 kernel cycle