X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=19407f6fdd6fc923c455fe5e9a6cb3e229e4eaa5;hb=d4c3bfc5d7f3855b0fd612a372419cbdde8c9dc5;hp=687292b483372415a2e35a3e2e6d12042dce5eb6;hpb=ec2d0207cf71ebdc6f3ec59d40191e053f530460;p=wget diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 687292b4..19407f6f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,23 +7,40 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . * Changes in Wget 1.7-dev -** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in puts you in -some directory other than '/'. +** Wget can now recognize FTP directory listings from some non-Unix +servers. Currently Windows NT is supported. + +** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in +puts you in some directory other than '/'. ** "Keep-Alive" connections are now supported. -** https URLs are now supported if you link wget with OpenSSL. +** https URLs (SSL) are now supported if you link wget with OpenSSL. + +** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more +reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes +are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly +skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is +also more general. ** tags are now respected. + +** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists +where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving +large sites (thousands of documents). + +** Wget now mmaps the files it needs to read instead of allocating +heap memory to read them. + * Changes in Wget 1.6 ** Administrative changes. *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job", -Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a real job -as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both are being helped by -many other people. +Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a +real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both +are being helped by many other people. *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page. Take a look at: