[Bug-ddrescue] Version 1.15-rc1 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 1.15-rc1 of GNU ddrescue is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.15-rc1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.15-rc1.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
0d4182237e5bae450530f919c60ebed7  ddrescue-1.15-rc1.tar.gz
9fbbf10cf008aed6765d1e24925a8169  ddrescue-1.15-rc1.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 hard to rescue 
data in case of read errors.

GNU Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue logfiles, shows 
logfile contents, converts logfiles to/from other formats, compares 
logfiles, tests rescue status, and can delete a logfile if the rescue is 
done.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The new option "-I, --verify-input-size" has been added.

  * The new option "-x, --extend-outfile" has been added.

  * Ddrescue now verifies that infile, outfile and logfile are all 
different.

  * Non-tried blocks are now read aligned to cluster-size sectors.

  * The "split or skip" algorithm of the split pass has been improved.

  * The default block size for ddrescuelog has been changed to 512, the 
value used by ddrescue.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.