[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.27-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.27-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.27-rc1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
3c9e685a03735e1182efd2628770212ff490fdb4333cfce4e891f2a8adac1f57 
ddrescue-1.27-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 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:

  * Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command line options now 
show the argument and the name of the option.

  * 'long long' is now used instead of 'long' for time variables.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.

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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.