[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.22-pre6 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.22-pre6 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.22-pre6.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
647e82183c6dccf29f52b1d89c347a747fd44879  ddrescue-1.22-pre6.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:

  * The option '-X, --exit-on-error' has been replaced by '-X, 
--max-read-errors'. This introduces a backward incompatibility with 
versions 1.19 to 1.21 in that option '-X' now requires an argument. The 
long form '--exit-on-error' is still accepted, but will be removed in a 
future version of ddrescue.

  * The new option '--max-slow-reads' has been added. It makes ddrescue 
exit with status 1 if too many slow reads are encountered during the 
copying phase.

  * The experimental option '--exit-on-slow' has been removed.

  * The option '--max-errors' has been renamed to '--max-bad-areas'.

  * The initial skip size now defaults to (infile_size / 100_000) with 
a minimum value of 64 KiB.

  * Ddrescue now shows the number of read errors, the error rate and 
(if a --min-read-rate is specified) the number of slow reads.

  * Full sizes are now shown in the mapfile domain warning.

  * 'errsize' has been renamed to 'bad_size' and 'errors' to 'bad_areas'


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.