[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.22-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.22-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.22-rc3.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
595985680186884a01946118486d0d1b9e9b2e80  ddrescue-1.22-rc3.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:

  * The new option '--reset-slow' has been added. It resets the slow 
reads counter every time the read rate reaches or surpasses 
'--min-read-rate'. With this option, ddrescue only exits after the read 
rate has remained below '--min-read-rate' for at least as many seconds 
as the argument given to '--max-slow-reads'.

Unless someone finds any other problem, this will be the final release 
candidate before 1.22 stable, which will be released in a week.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.