diff --git a/mdstat/utils.py b/mdstat/utils.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/mdstat/utils.py
+++ b/mdstat/utils.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def group_lines(lines):
     group = []
 
     for line in lines:
-        if line == "":
+        if line.strip() == "":
             groups.append(group[:])
             group = []
             continue
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 setup(
     name="mdstat",
-    version="1.0.0",
+    version="1.0.1",
     description="mdstat parser",
     author="Truveris Inc.",
     author_email="dev@truveris.com",
Some status line terminate by adding random spaces on the following line, work around that.