Re: Release mdadm-4.6

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:45 PM Xiao Ni <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> I'm glad to announce mdadm-4.5. It is published to both remotes

Sorry, there was a typo above. s/mdadm-4.5/mdadm-4.6/g

Regards
Xiao

> (github and kernel.org). Here are some highlights from CHANGELOG.md.
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> # Release [mdadm-4.6](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.6)
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> Features:
> - Add support for new lockless bitmap from Yu Kuai
> - Add "PROBING ddf_extended" option in mdadm.conf from Martin Wilck
> - Add --detail to usage in ReadMe from Brian Matheson
>
> Fixes:
> - Fix uuid endianness mismatch issue in sysfs_rules_apply() from Abirami0904
> - Fix mdcheck: don't stop mdcheck_continue.timer from Martin Wilck
> - Deal with hot-unplugged devices in platform-intel from Jean Delvare
> - Detect corosync and libdlm via pkg-config in Makefile from Maxin John
> - Fix UEFI backward compatibility for RAID10D4 in imsm from Blazej Kucman
> - Optimize DDF header search using mmap for better performance from lilinzhe
> - Set sysfs name after assembling imsm array in incremental from Xiao Ni
> - Use creation_time for ctime in imsm container info from Xiao Ni
> - Fix sigterm variable to be volatile sig_atomic_t from Cristian Rodríguez
> - Use 64-bit off_t across both musl and glibc from Ankur Tyagi
> - Fix format overflow error in super-intel.c from Martin Wilck
> - Fix compilation errors for unused variables with GCC 16 from Martin Wilck
> - Load md_mod first to avoid module loading issues from Xiao Ni
>
> There are some important issues which led to boot failure. These issues
> have been fixed recently. It's better to make a new release. So users
> can choose a version without these problems.
> https://github.com/md-raid-utilities/mdadm/issues/249 has the details.
>
> Best Regards
> Xiao