[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre6 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.18-pre6 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.18-pre6.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
54ff0570aa95f6479df0f96c3fd33a68ec64868d  ddrescue-1.18-pre6.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:

  * Restored behavior of skipping as in 1.18-pre1. Ddrescue was 
incorrectly skipping a 'skip_size' beyond the end of the first failed 
block. Thanks to Scott Dwyer for reporting this.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.