[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.20-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.20-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.20-pre1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
dfe53e24982814821118e16a85c2773846e20c0a  ddrescue-1.20-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.

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 short name of option "--synchronous" has been changed to "-y".

  * The new option "-D, --odirect" has been added. This introduces a 
subtle backward incompatibility because "-D" was the short name of 
option "--synchronous".

  * The new option "--max-read-rate" has been added.

  * Accounting change; only bad_sector blocks are now included in 
"errsize".

  * The estimated remaining rescue time is now shown on the screen.

  * Times are now shown in days, hours, minutes and seconds, instead of 
as a fraction of the appropriate unit.

  * Fill mode has been extended to write location data into each sector.

  * Device name is now shown with "--ask" or "-vv" on Haiku.

  * Ddrescuelog can now show the status of more than one logfile.

  * The new chapter "Optical media" has been added to the manual.

  * The configure option "--enable-linux" has been renamed to 
"--enable-non-posix".

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", 
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to 
the Makefile.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.