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27 changes: 27 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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# Release [mdadm-4.6](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.6)
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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)

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#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 ""
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.\" 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
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.\" 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

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