1 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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6 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
8 * Changes in Wget 1.5.3+dev
10 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
11 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
12 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
14 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict wget to
15 following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval. -G /
16 --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the opposite -- all tags but the ones
17 you specify will be followed.
19 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
20 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
21 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
22 default in the system wgetrc.
24 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes wget to
25 download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML page properly
26 (e.g. inlined images).
28 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
30 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
32 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
34 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
36 ** Wget speaks many languages!
38 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
39 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
40 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
42 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
44 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
46 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
48 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
50 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
51 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
53 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
56 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
57 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
59 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
62 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
63 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
66 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
68 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
69 standards set by other GNU utilities.
71 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
72 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
74 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
77 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
78 distributed with Wget.
80 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
82 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
84 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
86 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
88 ** Can do passive FTP.
92 ** Info documentation expanded.
94 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
96 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
100 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
102 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
103 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
105 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
107 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
109 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
112 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
114 ** --convert-links should work now.
118 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
122 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
124 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
126 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
128 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
129 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
130 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
131 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
132 most importantly, use.
134 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
135 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
137 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
138 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
139 wget http://user:password@hostname/
141 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
142 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
143 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
145 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
146 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
148 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
149 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
151 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
153 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
154 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
156 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
159 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
160 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
163 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
164 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
165 sysadmin to like you).
167 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
169 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
172 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
173 through a proxy server.
175 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
176 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
178 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
181 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
182 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
184 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
186 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
188 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
190 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
191 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
193 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
194 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
196 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
198 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
199 turn on mirroring options).
201 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
203 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
205 ** A host of bugfixes.
207 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
209 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
211 ** Added support for no_proxy
213 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
215 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
217 ** More natural command-line options
219 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
221 ** Added support for robots.txt
223 ** Fixed some minor bugs
225 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
227 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
229 ** REST supported in FTP
231 ** Proxy servers supported
233 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
234 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
235 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
237 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
239 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
241 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
243 ** autoconf supported
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