[Paranoia-announce] cdparanoia 10.2 released: MAJOR UPGRADE ANNOUNCEMENT

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

Hello all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of cdparanoia 10.2.  This is the
first release in several years to involve substantial new development
as opposed to simply 'keeping up' and vetting/adding contributed
patches.

In addition to regression testing and bugfixes, 10.2 includes major
drive cache handling improvements over previous versions.  The short
story is that a sizable fraction of new cdrom drives that have
appeared since the last major read model update (in 2001) exhibit
cache behaviors or weirdnesses of which previous cdparanoia versions
are partly or fully unaware.  These drives, when they skip, stand a
good chance of having the skip or glitch make it through verification
undetected because cdparanoia was not successfully defeating the
drive's data cache.  10.2 implements an improved caching model that
eliminates all the new cache behaviors I've observed.

IN SUMMARY: 10.2 ADDRESSES RIP CORRECTNESS ISSUES.  YOU WANT TO UPGRADE.

10.2 also includes a nifty cache analysis utility via the -A option.
This runs an offline cache analysis of the drive, printing a summary
to the screen and dumping a detailed log to 'cdparanoia.log' in the
event that the test finds a problem, or cdparanoia is acting up in
some other way.

As always, the release can be downloaded from http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

Cheers,
Monty
xiph.org