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@@ -421,6 +421,9 @@ allowing themselves a breath. Please respect that.
The release candidate -rc1 is the starting point for new patches to be
applied which are targeted for the next merge window.
+So called _urgent_ branches will be merged into mainline during the
+stabilization phase of each release.
+
Git
^^^