All speed limitations may be disabled by setting the environment variable CDR_FORCESPEED to "any". The drive buffer size recognition was changed so that cdrecord now shows correct size values even for the LG GSA-H55N. DVD-RW/DL may now be blanked. The "out-fd=descriptor" option was added to cdda2wav, and allows the user to redirect informational output to a file descriptor other than stderr. A core dump with mkisofs in the Joliet code caused by the new Apple UDF extensions is now avoided.