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[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.18.1 released


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.18.1 released
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:21:55 +0200
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I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.18.1.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors.

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.

The sha1sum is:
97cd3c6c783f3dc5685f0147dc83f3c94fb36b4c  ddrescue-1.18.1.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.18.1:

(This stable version is numbered 1.18.1 because a bug preventing compilation on systems where time_t != long was discovered after releasing 1.18, but before announcing it).

  * A bug has been fixed in the "or" and "xor" operations of ddrescuelog.

  * The new option "-H, --test-mode" has been added.

* The new option "-L, --loose-domain" has been added to ddrescue and ddrescuelog.

  * The new option "-N, --no-trim" has been added.

  * The new option "-O, --reopen-on-error" has been added.

* The new options "-1, --log-rates" and "-2, --log-reads" have been added. They produce data files usable by plotting utilities like gnuplot.

* The option "-K, --skip-size" has been extended to accept a maximum skip size and to disable skipping.

* The long name of option "-r" has been changed to "--retry-passes" to make it clear that ddrescue tries each sector only once per retry pass.

  * The short name of option "--generate-mode" has been changed to "-G".

* The default value of option "-l, --logfile-size" has been increased to 10000 (from 1000).

* If ddrescue is interrupted by a signal, it now terminates by raising the signal received.

* The algorithm of the copying phase has been changed. It now marks as non-trimmed just the failed blocks, skips beyond them, and tries the skipped areas later in two additional passes (before trimming), reversing the direction after each pass. The third pass is a sweeping pass, with skipping disabled. The new method is faster around large errors, keeps the logfile smaller, and produces better starting points for trimming, which now tries the smallest blocks first.

* Speed has been improved when using complex domains with option "-m, --domain-logfile".

  * Current total run time is now shown on the screen.

  * The pass number and direction are now shown during the copying phase.

* The message "About to copy an unknown number of bytes" is now shown when the size of the input file can't be determined.

  * The option "-B, --binary-prefixes" has been added to ddrescuelog.

  * The new option "-C, --complete-logfile" has been added to ddrescuelog.

  * The new option "-P, --compare-as-domain" has been added to ddrescuelog.

  * Many improvements have been made to the documentation.

  * "ddrescue.texinfo" has been renamed to "ddrescue.texi".


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.




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