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@@ -1,11 +1,52 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, -2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software +Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>. - + +* Changes in Wget 16.1 + +** Add --enable-assert configure option. + +** Use pkg-config to check for libraries presence. + +** Do not limit --secure-protocol=auto|pfs to TLSv1.0. + +** Add --secure-protocol=TLSv1_1|TLSv1_2 . + +** Full C89 source code compliance. + +** Select and use the most secure authentication scheme with HTTP connections. + +** Fix issues with turkish locales. + +** Handle 504 Gateway Timeout. + +** New option --crl-file to load Certificate Revocation Lists. + +** Add valgrind support to tests suite. + +** Fix an off-by-one problem in the progress bar (introduced in 1.16). + +* Changes in Wget 1.16 + +** No longer create local symbolic links by default. Closes CVE-2014-4877. + +** Use libpsl for verifying cookie domains. + +** Default progress bar output changed. + +** Introduce --show-progress to force display the progress bar. + +** Introduce --no-config. The wgetrc files will not be read. + +** Introduce --start-pos to allow starting downloads from a specified position. + +** Fix a problem with ISA Server Proxy and keep-alive connections. + * Changes in Wget 1.15 ** Add support for --method. @@ -37,7 +78,7 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>. ** Specify Host with the HTTP CONNECT method. ** Use the correct HTTP method on a redirection. - + * Changes in Wget 1.14 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP @@ -64,7 +105,7 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>. ** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value. ** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication. - + * Changes in Wget 1.13.4 ** Now --version and --help work again. @@ -77,7 +118,7 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>. is specified. ** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag. - + * Changes in Wget 1.13.3 ** Support HTTP/1.1 @@ -143,7 +184,7 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>. ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to a DNS name when it is resolved. - + * Changes in Wget 1.12 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org @@ -197,7 +238,7 @@ forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent, auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11. - + * Changes in Wget 1.11.4 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to @@ -211,13 +252,13 @@ locally with content. to a pointer-to-time_t. ** Translation updates for Catalan. - + * Changes in Wget 1.11.3 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error. ** Translation updates - + * Changes in Wget 1.11.2 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy. @@ -239,7 +280,7 @@ multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2. for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for FTP URLs only. - + * Changes in Wget 1.11.1. ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file @@ -261,7 +302,7 @@ be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future. ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior. - + * Changes in Wget 1.11. ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response, @@ -307,7 +348,7 @@ available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/. - + * Changes in Wget 1.10. ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large @@ -418,9 +459,9 @@ http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd .wgetrc commands have been deprecated. * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows. - + * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.9. ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP @@ -472,11 +513,11 @@ values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off". ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'. - + * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.8. ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default. @@ -536,9 +577,9 @@ no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters which are not reserved are still escaped, of course. ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed. - + * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.7. ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support; @@ -580,7 +621,7 @@ large sites (thousands of documents). documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl distribution installed on your system. - + * Changes in Wget 1.6 ** Administrative changes. @@ -631,13 +672,13 @@ passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean. bound to multiple IP addresses. ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects. - + * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.5.0 ** Wget speaks many languages! @@ -672,7 +713,7 @@ ASCII type transfer: wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a" -** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to +** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to conform to standards set by other GNU utilities. ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS @@ -683,11 +724,11 @@ download. ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer distributed with Wget. - + * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.4.3 ** Wget is now a GNU utility. @@ -703,7 +744,7 @@ distributed with Wget. ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir). ** Lots of bugfixes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.4.2 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/, @@ -721,7 +762,7 @@ files. ** --convert-links should work now. ** Minor bugfixes. - + * Changes in Wget 1.4.1 ** Minor bugfixes. @@ -729,7 +770,7 @@ files. ** Added -I (the opposite of -X). ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary - + * Changes in Wget 1.4.0 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of @@ -810,7 +851,7 @@ turn on mirroring options). ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-) ** A host of bugfixes. - + * Changes in Geturl 1.3 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*) @@ -828,9 +869,9 @@ turn on mirroring options). ** Added support for robots.txt ** Fixed some minor bugs - + * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. - + * Changes in Geturl 1.1 ** REST supported in FTP @@ -848,7 +889,7 @@ geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ ** <base href="xxx"> supported ** autoconf supported - + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: |