From: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:06:14 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: Release mdadm-4.6
X-Git-Tag: mdadm-4.6^0
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=HEAD;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git

Release mdadm-4.6

mdadm-4.6 fixes some issues which led to boot failure.
https://github.com/md-raid-utilities/mdadm/issues/249
has the detail.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d84edb46..12013033 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+# Release [mdadm-4.6](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.6)
+
+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.
+
 # Release [mdadm-4.5](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.5)
 
 Features:
diff --git a/ReadMe.c b/ReadMe.c
index 66726491..d0c8c784 100644
--- a/ReadMe.c
+++ b/ReadMe.c
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 #include "mdadm.h"
 
 #ifndef VERSION
-#define VERSION "4.5"
+#define VERSION "4.6"
 #endif
 #ifndef VERS_DATE
-#define VERS_DATE "2025-12-16"
+#define VERS_DATE "2026-03-16"
 #endif
 #ifndef EXTRAVERSION
 #define EXTRAVERSION ""
diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
index ec1a40ac..16f80efe 100644
--- a/mdadm.8.in
+++ b/mdadm.8.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\"   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 .\"   (at your option) any later version.
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDADM 8 "" v4.5
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v4.6
 .SH NAME
 mdadm \- manage MD devices
 .I aka
diff --git a/mdmon.8 b/mdmon.8
index 475bf3ce..1600eecd 100644
--- a/mdmon.8
+++ b/mdmon.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.5
+.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.6
 .SH NAME
 mdmon \- monitor MD external metadata arrays