Release mdadm-4.6

Release mdadm-4.6

[Xiao Ni]

Hi all

I'm glad to announce mdadm-4.5. It is published to both remotes
(github and kernel.org). Here are some highlights from CHANGELOG.md.

# 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.

Best Regards
Xiao

Re: Release mdadm-4.6

[Xiao Ni]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:45 PM Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> # 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.
>
> Best Regards
> Xiao

Re: Release mdadm-4.6

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 3/16/26 4:45 PM, Xiao Ni wrote:

> I'm glad to announce mdadm-4.5. It is published to both remotes
> (github and kernel.org). Here are some highlights from CHANGELOG.md.
> 
> # Release [mdadm-4.6](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.6)
Could you please upload the corresponding tarball to the official
kernel.org dir ( https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ ) ?

Thanks.

Re: Release mdadm-4.6

[Xiao Ni]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 5:35 PM Xose Vazquez Perez
<xose.vazquez@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/16/26 4:45 PM, Xiao Ni wrote:
>
> > I'm glad to announce mdadm-4.5. It is published to both remotes
> > (github and kernel.org). Here are some highlights from CHANGELOG.md.
> >
> > # Release [mdadm-4.6](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.6)
> Could you please upload the corresponding tarball to the official
> kernel.org dir ( https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ ) ?

Hi, I'll try to do this. I took the maintainer job, but the job
doesn't contain this part. I'll figure it out. But it needs some time.

If you want to download the package in spec file, you can do like this:

   1 Name:        mdadm
   2 Version:     4.4
   3 # extraversion is used to define rhel internal version
   4 %define extraversion 3
   5 Release:     %{extraversion}%{?dist}
   6 Summary:     The mdadm program controls Linux md devices
(software RAID arrays)
   7 URL:         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
   8 License:     GPLv2+
   9
  10 Source:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/snapshot/%{name}-%{version}%{?subversion:-%{subversion}}.tar.gz

This is my way. Hope this helps you.

Best Regards
Xiao

>
> Thanks.
>

Re: Release mdadm-4.6

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 3/18/26 11:30 AM, Xiao Ni wrote:

> Hi, I'll try to do this. I took the maintainer job, but the job
> doesn't contain this part. I'll figure it out. But it needs some time.
> 
> If you want to download the package in spec file, you can do like this:
> 
>     1 Name:        mdadm
>     2 Version:     4.4
>     3 # extraversion is used to define rhel internal version
>     4 %define extraversion 3
>     5 Release:     %{extraversion}%{?dist}
>     6 Summary:     The mdadm program controls Linux md devices
> (software RAID arrays)
>     7 URL:         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
>     8 License:     GPLv2+
>     9
>    10 Source:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/snapshot/%{name}-%{version}%{?subversion:-%{subversion}}.tar.gz
All versions are listed at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/refs/tags

But package maintainers, or automated build systems, often rely on the kernel.org url
( https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm ) for stable source downloads.

Thanks.