I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.11.
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://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/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:
7146046bb1851351d1337bb1f5b4e903 ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz
af840dd177e968493e2fcef1fb19d719 ddrescue-1.11.tar.lz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.
Changes in version 1.11:
* In case of error writing the logfile to disc, the user is now given
the possibility of fixing the problem and continue.
* The splitting algorithm has been modified to read secuentially the
areas smaller than a threshold size.
* After every read error, ddrescue now verifies the input file has
not disappeared.
* In rescue mode, ddrescue now shows the time elapsed from the last
successful read.
* Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are now ignored by ddrescue.
* Descriptions of "--direct", "--synchronous" and "--sparse" in the
manual have been made clearer.
* Description of rescue algorithm in the manual has been made clearer.
* "make check" now verifies that files are open in binary mode.
* A warning about logfile usage has been added to "ddrescue --help"
output.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.
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