[Bug-ddrescue] Version 1.14 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.14.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.

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.

This version is also available in lzip format. If your distro doesn't 
yet distribute the lzip program, you can download it from 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html

The md5sums are:
d6f6cc63df9ad352bc6e43b65c975af5  ddrescue-1.14.tar.gz
122d628c884a170659ac4c227cc484bc  ddrescue-1.14.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 1.14:

  * The new option "-R, --reverse", which reverses direction of copy 
operations, has been added.

  * The new option "-E, --max-error-rate", which stops ddrescue when 
the error size grows too fast (in Bytes/s), has been added.

  * The syntax of option "--max-errors" has been extended to specify 
new errors (--max-errors=+N).

  * The short name of option "--retrim" has been changed to "-M".

  * A spurious warning about "preallocation not available" has been fixed.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden

If you are packaging ddrescue for a distribution, please, try to use the 
lzipped source tarball, as this can improve the support for the lzip 
format in packaging systems[1][2]. Thanks.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556960
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249059


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.