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Version history of Documentation/process/backporting.rst

November 2026

Gao Xiang
walk the parents once, not twice
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October 2026

Linus Torvalds
stop swallowing the parse error
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Linus Torvalds
keep the empty state on one line
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Gao Xiang
name the magic number
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Gao Xiang
collapse the two nearly identical helpers
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Linus Torvalds
let the caller pass its own fetch
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Linus Torvalds
read the default from the config
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John Groves
stop the header from reflowing on hover
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Linus Torvalds
cache the resolved handle for the session
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Gao Xiang
keep the empty state on one line
committed
Linus Torvalds
walk the parents once, not twice
committed

September 2026

Gao Xiang
drop the dead compatibility branch
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Gao Xiang
let the caller pass its own fetch
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John Groves
handle the ref with a slash in it
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Gao Xiang
fix the off-by-one in the page cursor
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Gao Xiang
collapse the two nearly identical helpers
committed
Gao Xiang
move the guard up to the boundary
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Linus Torvalds
walk the parents once, not twice
committed
Gao Xiang
stop swallowing the parse error
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Linus Torvalds
spell the aria label out loud
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August 2026

Gao Xiang
pull the loader out of the component
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Gao Xiang
name the magic number
committed
Linus Torvalds
put the separator back between the rows
committed
Gao Xiang
handle the ref with a slash in it
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Gao Xiang
round the sizes to the token scale
committed
Linus Torvalds
make the toggle keyboard reachable
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July 2026

Gao Xiang
handle the ref with a slash in it
committed
John Groves
treat a missing body as empty, not null
committed