Release mdadm-4.4

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Tkaczyk <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+# Release [mdadm-4.4](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.4)
+
+Features:
+- Remobe 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 adn create CI. Currently, we have:
+- Compilation tests with various gcc.
+- **mdadm** tests.
+- Checkpatch test.
+
 # Release [mdadm-4.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.3)
 
 Features:

ReadMe.c

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 #include "mdadm.h"
 
 #ifndef VERSION
-#define VERSION "4.3"
+#define VERSION "4.4"
 #endif
 #ifndef VERS_DATE
-#define VERS_DATE "2024-02-15"
+#define VERS_DATE "2024-11-07"
 #endif
 #ifndef EXTRAVERSION
 #define EXTRAVERSION ""

mdadm.8.in

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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 "" v4.3
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v4.4
 .SH NAME
 mdadm \- manage MD devices
 .I aka

mdmon.8

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.3
+.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.4
 .SH NAME
 mdmon \- monitor MD external metadata arrays