[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.22-pre5 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.22-pre5 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.22-pre5.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
fbfe57941b01154f87bd92eba1a692cc3ff3cc23  ddrescue-1.22-pre5.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 new option '--log-events' has been added. It logs all 
significant events (start of each pass and end of run) in a file, 
indicating the time, the percentage rescued, and a message describing 
the event.

  * The new option '-A, --annotate-mapfile' has been added to 
ddrescuelog. It adds comments to a mapfile containing the positions and 
sizes of the blocks in human-readable form.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.