diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-3.1.4')
-rw-r--r-- | ANNOUNCE-3.1.4 | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1.4 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c157a36 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.4 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 3.1.4 + +It is available at the usual places: + countrycode=xx. + http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ +and via git at + git://neil.brown.name/mdadm + http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm + +This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.3. +3.1.3 had a couple of embarrasing regressions and a couple of other +issues surfaces which had easy fixes so I decided to make a 3.1.4 +release after all. + +Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev: + - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop + - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev +And fixed regressions: + - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array + - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than + throwing an error + - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling + a container which does not yet have enough devices. + - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it. + - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf + - Fix spare migration + +This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to +upgrade to 3.1.4 + +It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new +features. + +NeilBrown 31st August 2010 |