[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre10 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre10 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.18-pre10.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
8295a257cecc089e7c4e1648e4756b3b7128bc5b  ddrescue-1.18-pre10.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.

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


Changes in this version:

  * Fixed a bug (introduced in 1.18-pre8) which sometimes marks a bad 
sector as finished when reading backwards.

  * The new option "-H, --test-mode" has been added.

  * The default value of option "-l, --logfile-size" has been increased 
to 10000 (from 1000).

  * The algorithm of the copying phase has been changed (again). It now 
marks as non-trimmed just the failed blocks, skips beyond them, and 
tries the skipped areas later in two additional passes (before 
trimming), reversing the direction after each pass. The third pass is a 
sweeping pass, with skipping disabled.

  * The pass number and direction are now shown during the copying phase.

  * A bug has been fixed in the "or" and "xor" operations of ddrescuelog.

  * The new option "-P, --compare-as-domain" has been added to ddrescuelog.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.