[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.24-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.24-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.24-pre1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
9df26a540e487dd34310f952dd84c9a1a0f2f90e2c3ee71341c1871114e6bbfd 
ddrescue-1.24-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.

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 '--command-mode' has been added. It activates a 
scripting interface similar to the one of ed which reads commands from 
the standard input and executes them, copying parts of the input file on 
demand.

  * It has been documented that when ddrescue finishes, the contents of 
any areas marked as bad-sector remain untouched in the output file.

  * The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS 
using the syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.



Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.
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