http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ notes: ===== Latest is version 1.38 (2013-08-02) It is improving SSE sparse detection performance (by 40%), adding a testcase for the 1.35/1.36 bug and run it in make check. There's even an AVX version, but it's not enabled by default, as it's untested. --force/-f now allows to ignore a non-zero output position on non-seekable output and the curr.rate and ETA calculations have improved a bit. Version 1.37 (2013-08-01) was fixing an issue with SSE2 sparse detection, which could spuriously detect zero-filled blocks and thus result in corrupted copies if option -a was used. (This would happen for blocks that had no bytes with the uppermost bit set, such as e.g. ASCII text.) Embarassing! Also fixed issues on big-endian machines (although these were inconsequential for dd_rescue). The previous version is 1.36, released 2013-07-24. It fixes an overflow issue with the number output for long running dd_rescue processes. SSE2 is now also enabled in x86 (32bit, with runtime detection) and an optimized ARM version (assembler yeah!) to find zero blocks was added. The previous version was 1.35, released 2013-07-17. It had some improvements on the output that it prints -- beyond internal improvements it introduces colours to the output unless the terminal type is clearly dumb; there is also an option to control this. Numbers are highlighted for readability. Output is rate limited (10/s). 1.35 also brings a simple rewrite logic for handling write errors. There's an SSE2 optimized version to find zero blocks for sparse writing. The previous version was 1.34, released 2013-07-04, It brought better support for various *nix systems (specifically had a few fixes for FreeBSD), better compatibility with compilers (clang and g++ and clang++). It can now also load libfallocate at runtime (libdl) and detects a few more fatl write errors as such. Reproducible: Always
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Version bump http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/dd-rescue/dd-rescue-1.40.ebuild?rev=1.1
