Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 3.1.4 It is available at the usual places: 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 This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.3. 3.1.3 had a couple of embarrasing regressions and a couple of other issues surfaces which had easy fixes so I decided to make a 3.1.4 release after all. Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev: - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev And fixed regressions: - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than throwing an error - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling a container which does not yet have enough devices. - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it. - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf - Fix spare migration This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to upgrade to 3.1.4 It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new features. NeilBrown 31st August 2010