Version 1.8 of GNU ddrescue released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ddrescue 1.8.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.

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

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

The md5sum is:
51451893ea96a5f9943523743a6a35ae ddrescue-1.8.tar.bz2

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

Changes in version 1.8:

* The new option "--generate-logfile" has been added.

* The new option "--synchronous" has been added.

* Fill mode now works when outfile offset differs from 0.

* The chapter "Fill Mode" of the manual has been updated.

Please send bug reports and suggestions to bug-dd...@gnu.org

Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.