ANNOUNCE-3.1.5

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 3.1.5
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   6 It is available at the usual places:
   7    countrycode=xx.
   8    http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
   9 and via git at
  10    git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
  11    http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
  12
  13 This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.4.  It contains all the
  14 important bugfixes found while working on 3.2 and 3.2.1.  It will be
  15 the last 3.1.x release - 3.2.1 is expected to be released in a few days.
  16
  17 Changes include:
  18   - Fixes for v1.x metadata on big-endian machines.
  19   - man page improvements
  20   - Improve '--detail --export' when run on partitions of an md array.
  21   - Fix regression with removing 'failed' or 'detached' devices.
  22   - Fixes for "--assemble --force" in various unusual cases.
  23   - Allow '-Y' to mean --export.  This was documented but not implemented.
  24   - Various fixed for handling 'ddf' metadata.  This is now more reliable
  25     but could benefit from more interoperability testing.
  26   - Correctly list subarrays of a container in "--detail" output.
  27   - Improve checks on whether the requested number of devices is supported
  28     by the metadata - both for --create and --grow.
  29   - Don't remove partitions from a device that is being included in an
  30     array until we are fully committed to including it.
  31   - Allow "--assemble --update=no-bitmap" so an array with a corrupt
  32     bitmap can still be assembled.
  33   - Don't allow --add to succeed if it looks like a "--re-add" is probably
  34     wanted, but cannot succeed.  This avoids inadvertently turning
  35     devices into spares when an array is failed.
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  37 This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
  38 upgrade to 3.1.5
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  41 NeilBrown 23rd March 2011
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