Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

I am pleased to announce the availability of
   mdadm version 2.5.1

It is available at the usual places:
   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
and
   http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
and via git at
   git://neil.brown.name/git/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 2.5.1 adds multiple minor updates including a couple of bugfixes.

Changelog Entries:
    -   Various fixes for gcc warnings
    -   uclibc warnings
    -   Makefile improvements for static linking/intalling
    -   Makefile uninstall target
    -   Really fix return status of --examine
    -   Typos
    -   Byteorder stuff (again)
    -   Don't try to create devices with --manage or --grow
    -   allow default metadata (superblock) type to be specified
	in mdadm.conf
    -   Get --stop to list devices stopped but honour --quiet
    -   remove libssl dependency
    -   Avoid some misdetection of overlapping partitions
    -   Fix memory leak in --monitor mode

Development of mdadm is sponsored by
 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

NeilBrown  16th June 2006


