+Changes Prior to this release
+ - Support 'mailfrom' line in mdadm.conf so the From: line in alert
+ emails can be explicitly set.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.4.1 release
+ - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent
+ superblocks.
+ - Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks.
+ NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape.
+ If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks,
+ use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later.
+
Changes Prior to 2.4 release
- Rewrite 'reshape' support including performing a backup
of the critical region for a raid5 growth, and restoring that
- Put a 'canary' at each end of the backup so a corruption
can be more easily detected.
- Remove useless 'ident' arguement from ->getinfo_super method.
+ - Support --backup-file for backing-up critical section during
+ growth.
+ - Erase old superblocks (of different versions) when creating new
+ array.
+ - Allow --monitor to work with arrays with >28 devices
+ - Report reshape information in --detail
+ - Handle symlinks in /dev better
+ - Fix mess in --detail output which a device is missing.
+ - Manpage tidyup
+ - Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with
+ write-intent bitmaps in separate files.
+ - Updates to md.4 man page including section on RESTRIPING and SYSFS
Changes Prior to 2.3.1 release
- Fixed -O2 compile so I could make and RPM.