[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.21 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.21.

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

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ddrescue/ 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ or from your 
favorite GNU mirror.

The sha1sum is:
0a216c53b486979bc97cd8e7e7b79c621c305862  ddrescue-1.21.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 1.21:

  * 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).

  * Short option names '-1' and '-2' have been removed to avoid 
mistakes in the command line.

  * Only regular files are now allowed as arguments of options 
'--log-rates' and '--log-reads'.

  * Option '-D, --odirect' now works also in fill mode.

  * Option '-J, --verify-on-error' now marks blocks as failed on any 
error, and exits with status 1 if a read error happens before a good 
sector is found.

  * Option '-X, --exit-on-error' has been extended to all phases.

  * The short name '-Z' has been assigned to option '--max-read-rate'.

  * The mapfile is now "fsync'ed" every 5 minutes because some systems 
seem to never write the mapfile to disc.

  * Ddrescue now shows all sizes in rescue mode; non-tried, 
non-trimmed, non-scraped, bad-sector and finished.

  * Ddrescue now shows the percentage of the domain rescued in rescue mode.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.