[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.21-pre4 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.21-pre4 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.21-pre4.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
0b8b4313e64303ee0b4af94545d534e1fdbdfbf9  ddrescue-1.21-pre4.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.

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:

  * A bug in the alignment of the I/O buffer has been (hopefully) 
fixed. (Thanks to Heikki Tauriainen).

  * Ddrescue now exits with status 1 in case of unaligned read in 
direct mode (because of a wrong sector size, for example).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.