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+Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of
+ mdadm version 2.5.5
+
+It is available at the usual places:
+ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
+and
+ countrycode=xx.
+ http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+and via git at
+ git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
+ http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
+
+mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
+device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
+known as Software RAID arrays.
+
+Release 2.5.5 is a bugfix release over 2.5.4.
+Hopefully the last before 2.6.
+
+Changelog Entries:
+ - Don't #include linux/blkpg.h as that isn't safe. Just
+ include the content literally.
+ - Reduce maximum bitmap usage when working with bitmap files,
+ so that a only single-page allocations are made, even on
+ 64bit hosts with 4K pages.
+ - Close stray fd in mdassemble so that it can assemble stacked
+ devices
+ - If mdassemble finds an array already assembled, it marks it
+ read-write.
+ - Remove error in md_open if array is already active. This isn't
+ needed and gets in the ways if an array was created e.g. in
+ initramfs, but device doesn't yet exist in /dev.
+ - When --assemble --scan is run, if all arrays that could be found
+ have already been started, don't report an error.
+ - Fix a couple of bugs related to raid10 and the new 'offset' layout.
+ - Improve error message when a wrong '--update' option is given.
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by
+ SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
+
+NeilBrown 23rd October 2006