[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre4 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre4 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.18-pre4.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
fb0f93a005534e033a7f370c8b59b7c30937cdba  ddrescue-1.18-pre4.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 hard to rescue
data 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:

  * The long name of option "-r" has been changed to "--retry-passes" 
to make it clear that ddrescue tries each sector only once per retry pass.

  * The default value of option "-a, --min-read-rate" has been changed 
to 0 (auto).

  * The effect of option '-O, --reopen-on-error' is now limited to the 
copying phase, but it now reopens the file also on slow reads.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.