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The Linux Kernel Hit A Decade Low In 2024 For The Number Of New Commits Per Year
With New Year's Eve at Phoronix it means combing through Git statistics for the past year of various open-source projects among other end of year coverage..
At first I was thinking perhaps the alignment of the merge windows / kernel release cadence to the calendar year played a role but didn't appear to when comparing the number of kernel releases per year and not something that would shift for a decade of activity. So in terms of code activity, 2024 was largely similar to prior years for the Linux kernel, just with far fewer commits. Those wanting to dig through this end of year 2024 GitStats dump for the Linux kernel source tree can find the data here.
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