I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.16.
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.
The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ddrescue/
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ or from your
favorite GNU mirror.
This version is also available in lzip format. If your distro doesn't
yet distribute the lzip program, you can download it from
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
The md5sums are:
57b67407e882c6418531d48a2f20d16b ddrescue-1.16.tar.gz
daf6af37787435ec18f3021321a7d0f1 ddrescue-1.16.tar.lz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.
Changes in version 1.16:
* The new option "-K, --skip-size" has been added.
* The new option "-T, --timeout", which sets the maximum time allowed
since the last successful read, has been added.
* The short name of option "--try-again" has been changed to "-A".
* Maximum skip size is now limited to 1% of infile size or 1 GiB
(whichever is smaller), rounded to the next multiple of sector size.
* The current position is now set to the end of the block when
reading backwards, allowing perfect resumability also in reverse mode.
* The "-E, --max-error-rate" option now checks the rate of actually
failed reads, not the growth of error size, and shows the error rate in
the error message.
* The option "-v, --verbose" now increases verbosity if repeated.
* Initial skip size is now shown at verbosity level 1 and above.
* Most user-defined parameters are now shown at verbosity level 2 and
above.
* Verbosity level 2 and above adds two lines of initial status
showing current position, current sector, and size of last block in logfile.
* Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU
Coding Standards.
* Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to
follow GNU Standards.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to bug-ddres...@gnu.org
If you are packaging ddrescue for a distribution, please, try to use the
lzipped source tarball, as this can improve the support for the lzip
format in packaging systems. Thanks.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.
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