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    <h1>Recommended update for mdadm</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2025:4431-1</td>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2025-12-17T12:04:03Z</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207266">bsc#1207266</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229997">bsc#1229997</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233265">bsc#1233265</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243443">bsc#1243443</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246806">bsc#1246806</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248097">bsc#1248097</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253060">bsc#1253060</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7</li>
                    
                </ul>
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    <p>An update that has seven fixes can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for mdadm fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Version update 4.4+29.gf8bb524b.</li>
<li>Fixing race conditions between mdcheck_start and mdcheck_continue services
  (bsc#1243443, bsc#1248097).</li>
<li>Fixing broken monitoring for mdadm in Leap 15.6 (bsc#1229997).</li>
<li>Split off the Software RAID HOWTO into a -doc package.</li>
<li>Upstream bug fixes since 4.4 (bsc#1253060).</li>
<li>_service: switch to tar_scm for better interoperabity with SLFO.</li>
<li>_service: pull from github.com/openSUSE/mdadm, patches now managed in git.</li>
<li>New versioning scheme: add tag offset and git commit from openSUSE/mdadm repo.</li>
<li>Fix systemd unit file handling in spec file (bsc#1207266).</li>
<li>Fix mdraid activation issues (bsc#1233265).</li>
<li>Stop emitting %release into program binaries (bsc#1246806).</li>
</ul>



    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
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            <li class="list-group-item">
                Basesystem Module 15-SP7
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-4431=1</code>
                    
                    
                
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    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>mdadm-debuginfo-4.4+29.gf8bb524b-150700.4.15.4</li>
                        
                            <li>mdadm-debugsource-4.4+29.gf8bb524b-150700.4.15.4</li>
                        
                            <li>mdadm-4.4+29.gf8bb524b-150700.4.15.4</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
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        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207266">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207266</a>
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                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229997">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229997</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233265">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233265</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243443">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243443</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246806">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246806</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248097">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248097</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253060">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253060</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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