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+Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.7.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of 
+   mdadm version 1.7.0
+It is available at
+   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
+and
+   http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+
+as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
+
+mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
+device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
+known as Software RAID arrays.
+
+Release 1.7.0 adds:
+    -   Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the
+        kernel supports it.  Not documented yet.
+    -   Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently.
+    -   Several improvements to the output of --detail, including
+        reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state.
+    -   Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it 
+	anyway, so this isn't abig deal).
+    -   Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate.
+    -   Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the
+        array is assembled.	 
+    -   Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6.
+	Not documented yet.
+    -   --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file
+	even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line
+
+It is expected that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0
+and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and
+array creation.  In particular, it will be able to work with the new
+superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6.
+Prior to that, some point releases (1.7.1, 1.7.2 ...) may be released 
+so that the changes can be tested by interrested parties.
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: 
+  The School of Computer Science and Engineering
+at
+  The University of New South Wales
+
+NeilBrown  11 August 2004
+