Version 1.16 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.16.

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://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ddrescue/ 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/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:
57b67407e882c6418531d48a2f20d16b  ddrescue-1.16.tar.gz
daf6af37787435ec18f3021321a7d0f1  ddrescue-1.16.tar.lz

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

Changes in version 1.16:

  * The new option "-K, --skip-size" has been added.

  * The new option "-T, --timeout", which sets the maximum time allowed 
since the last successful read, has been added.

  * The short name of option "--try-again" has been changed to "-A".

  * Maximum skip size is now limited to 1% of infile size or 1 GiB 
(whichever is smaller), rounded to the next multiple of sector size.

  * The current position is now set to the end of the block when 
reading backwards, allowing perfect resumability also in reverse mode.

  * The "-E, --max-error-rate" option now checks the rate of actually 
failed reads, not the growth of error size, and shows the error rate in 
the error message.

  * The option "-v, --verbose" now increases verbosity if repeated.

  * Initial skip size is now shown at verbosity level 1 and above.

  * Most user-defined parameters are now shown at verbosity level 2 and 
above.

  * Verbosity level 2 and above adds two lines of initial status 
showing current position, current sector, and size of last block in logfile.

  * Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU 
Coding Standards.

  * Configure option "--datadir" has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to 
follow GNU Standards.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden

If you are packaging ddrescue for a distribution, please, try to use the 
lzipped source tarball, as this can improve the support for the lzip 
format in packaging systems. Thanks.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.