[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.20-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.20-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.20-rc3.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
7191db10412c440f72b3c8771cf101dc7c5089c4  ddrescue-1.20-rc3.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

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.

GNU Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows 
mapfile contents, converts mapfiles to/from other formats, compares 
mapfiles, tests rescue status, and can delete a mapfile if the rescue is 
done.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Changes in this version:

  * "logfile" has been renamed to "mapfile" everywhere, even in long 
option names. ("--domain-logfile" is now "--domain-mapfile", etc). This 
change overrides the renaming of "logfile" to "blockfile" made in rc2.

  * Read-only mapfiles, like domain mapfiles or input mapfiles for 
ddrescuelog, can now be read from standard input if a hyphen '-' is used 
as mapfile name.

  * "ddrescuelog --create-mapfile -" now writes the mapfile to standard 
output.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.