[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.26-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.26-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.26-pre1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
24eaccd8539b43af094154d22481df2df9ceebd02c7a4a6389ed9289e17a19cd 
ddrescue-1.26-pre1.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:

  * While writing the mapfile, ddrescue now checks the return value of each 
call to 'fprintf' to catch any temporary failure of 'fprintf' not reported 
by the system when closing the file. (Hole in mapfile reported by Radomír 
Tomis).

  * Ddrescue now shows the file name in all the diagnostics with a file 
involved. (Reported by Radomír Tomis).

  * Ddrescue now exits with status 1 on fatal read errors. (Suggested by 
Marco Marques).

  * Domain mapfiles may now contain unordered (but not overlapping) blocks 
when '-L, --loose-domain' is specified. (Suggested by Shaya Potter).

  * Ddrescue now scrolls forward after each pass. This keeps on the screen 
the final status of the previous pass, making it easier to estimate the 
amount of work done by the current pass. (Based on a suggestion by David 
Morrison).

  * The option synonyms '--*-logfile' and '--pause' have been removed and 
are no longer recognized.

  * Ddrescuelog now can convert between mapfiles and bitmaps of blocks (big 
and little endian). The new option '-F, --format' has been added to select 
the input format for '--create-mapfile', or the output format for 
'--list-blocks' (list, bitmap, bitmap-be, bitmap-le). (Bitmap format 
proposed by Florian Sedivy).

  * Option '-d, --delete-if-done' of ddrescuelog no longer gives an error 
if the mapfile is read from standard input. Instead it behaves like '-D, 
--done-status' because there is nothing to delete.

  * 'ddrescuelog --show-status' now rounds percentages up to get the sum 
closer to 100%.

  * Three missing '#include <algorithm>' have been added. (Reported by 
Richard Burkert).

  * The description of the algorithm in the manual has been improved.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.

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