Linux 7.4 Release Candidate Marks Largest Merge Window in History

• Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate for Linux kernel version 7.4.
• This merge window contains almost 20,000 commits, surpassing the usual ~15,000 commits.
• The Linux 7.4 kernel source tree has grown to 41,605,120 lines, with nearly half a million lines of code added.
• Torvalds believes the project has found a 'much healthier model' for incorporating AI contributions.
• The total lines of code include 5,193,578 blank lines, 4,993,604 lines of comments, and 31,417,938 lines of detected code.