Version 1.11 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.11.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html.

The sources can be downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ or
from your favorite GNU mirror.

This version is also available in lzip format. If your distro doesn't
yet distribute the lzip program, you can download it from
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html

The md5sums are:
7146046bb1851351d1337bb1f5b4e903  ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz
af840dd177e968493e2fcef1fb19d719  ddrescue-1.11.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.11:

  * In case of error writing the logfile to disc, the user is now given 
the possibility of fixing the problem and continue.

  * The splitting algorithm has been modified to read secuentially the 
areas smaller than a threshold size.

  * After every read error, ddrescue now verifies the input file has 
not disappeared.

  * In rescue mode, ddrescue now shows the time elapsed from the last 
successful read.

  * Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are now ignored by ddrescue.

  * Descriptions of "--direct", "--synchronous" and "--sparse" in the 
manual have been made clearer.

  * Description of rescue algorithm in the manual has been made clearer.

  * "make check" now verifies that files are open in binary mode.

  * A warning about logfile usage has been added to "ddrescue --help" 
output.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.