Version 1.4 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.4.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.

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

The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ or
from your favorite GNU mirror.

The md5sum is:
3a3a36012d5cdbede09948724b6d9239  ddrescue-1.4.tar.bz2

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

Changes in version 1.4:

* The new option "--direct" that instructs ddrescue to use direct disc 
access to read the input file, bypassing the kernel cache, has been added.

* A bug that displayed an incorrect initial error size has been fixed.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.