[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.19-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.19-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.19-pre1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
915e8afd06715a86e1c87443c6f03c57789adf42  ddrescue-1.19-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.

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:

  * A race condition at start of run with "--timeout=0" has been fixed.

  * Trimming is now done in one pass.

  * Splitting is now done in several passes, minimizing head movement. 
The largest blocks are split first. Then each pass splits all blocks 
larger than half the size of the blocks split in the previous pass. When 
the size of all remaining non-split blocks drops to less than 14 
sectors, they are read sequentially. Seek direction is reversed between 
passes, so that the heads never need to cross the whole disc just to 
begin another pass.

  * The license has been changed to GPL version 2 or later. (See 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2014-06/msg00000.html)


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.