X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3ae5e5ada97467d53bacf406e9c0396ad50e8e8a;hb=4bbcfc2a1d05c1ad0496c2f8f9e56236e4c76c00;hp=5976e0cdb098c6f3d37c727f04698f042984e14f;hpb=0108799cc78c384f8058806ef9ff5ac2f567b506;p=wget diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5976e0cd..3ae5e5ad 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . -* Changes in Wget (MAINLINE). +* Changes in Wget 1.12 (MAINLINE) + +** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org + +** --default-page option added to support alternative default names for +index.html. ** Added support for CSS. This includes: - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML @@ -19,6 +24,56 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek . +** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to +support password prompts at the console. + +** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from +an external file. + +** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options +are now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent. + +* Changes in Wget 1.11.4 + +** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to +download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist. + +** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the +remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists +locally with content. + +** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long +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. +(Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.) + +** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11, +has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never +meaningful, is still an error.) + +** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales +(too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll). + +** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing +and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace, +information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files +multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2. + +** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs, +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.