mdadm-4.4

Release mdadm-4.4

Full Changelog: mdadm-4.3...mdadm-4.4

Features:

• Remove custom bitmap file support from Yu Kuai.
• Custom device policies implementation from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Self encrypted drives (SED) support for IMSM metadata from Blazej Kucman.
• Support more than 4 disks for IMSM RAID10 from Mateusz Kusiak.
• Read IMSM license information from ACPI tables from Blazej Kucman.
• Support devnode in --Incremental --remove from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Printing IMSM license type in --detail-platform from Blazej Kucman.
• README.md from Mariusz Tkaczyk and Anna Sztukowska.

Fixes:

• Tests improvements from Xiao Ni and Kinga Stefaniuk.
• Mdmon's Checkpointing improvements from Mateusz Kusiak.
• Pass mdadm environment flags to systemd-env to enable tests from Mateusz Kusiak.
• Superblock 1.0 uuid printing fixes from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Find VMD bus manually if link is not available from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Unconditional devices count printing in --detail from Anna Sztukowska.
• Improve SIGTERM handling during reshape, from Mateusz Kusiak.
• Monitor.c renamed to Mdmonitor.c from Kinga Stefaniuk.
• Mdmonitor service documentation update from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Rework around writing to sysfs files from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Drop of HOT_REMOVE_DISK ioctl in Manage in favour of sysfs from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Delegate disk removal to managemon from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Some clean-ups of legacy code and functionalities like --auto=md from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Manual clean-up, references to old kernels removed from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Various static code analysis fixes.

In this release we created github repository and allowed participation through
Github. It allowed us to use Github actions and create CI. Currently, we have:

• Compilation tests with various gcc.
• mdadm tests.
• Checkpatch test.

mdadm-4.3

Full Changelog: mdadm-4.2...mdadm-4.3

Features:

• IMSM_NO_PLATFORM boot parameter support from Neil Brown.
• --write-zeros option support by Logan Gunthorpe.
• IMSM monetization by VMD register from Mateusz Grzonka.
• RST SATA under VMD support from Kevin Friedberg.
• Strong name rules from Mariusz Tkaczyk.

Fixes:

• Unify failed raid behavior from Coly Li.
• Rework of --update options from Mateusz Kusiak.
• mdmon-initrd service from Neil Brown.
• IMSM expand functionality rework from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
• Mdmonitor improvements from Mateusz Grzonka.
• Failed state verification from Mateusz Kusiak and Kinga Tanska.