X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a23ce4f8aa8a2828acdac5ac87e1bd86fe65c053;hb=462e643a7e31676eceda23e634241f7b4d2cd7bb;hp=4d3a51b0785507cccf583ef303867a72014d6f11;hpb=bcb055884bc0d78d8af37fa2823e67f53a7a9018;p=wget diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4d3a51b0..a23ce4f8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,20 +1,68 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, +2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . +* Changes in Wget (MAINLINE). + +** Gnulib is now used to provide code for certain portability aspects in +GNU Wget. + +** Wget uses Automake now as part of its build infrastructure. + * Changes in Wget 1.11. -** Wget now saves HTTP downloads using file names specified by the -`Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying -the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. +** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are +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/. + +** PATCH file removed; see http://wget.addictivecode.org/PatchGuidelines +for current information about producing patches for GNU Wget. + +** TODO file removed: we use a bugtracker now; see +http://wget.addictivecode.org/BugTracker. Also, +http://wget.addictivecode.org/FeatureSpecifications. + +** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response, +rather than the first one it got. -** The GnuTLS library is now also supported for https downloads. -This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by default; use ---with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS. OpenSSL is still required for -NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually change. +** configure.in now requires autoconf >= 2.61, rather than 2.59. + +** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer +header in recursive fetches. + +** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued, +for improved security. Authentication handling is still not +RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will +assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not +just the ones at or below the original authenticated location. +Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued +automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource. + +** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should +be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow. + +** Wget now saves HTTP downloads using file names specified by the +`Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying the +file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. For the time +being, Content-Disposition is not used by default, to avoid the extra +round-trips incurred (must specify "-e contentdisposition=yes"); this +may change in a future version. NOTE: This functionality is currently +considered "experimental", and may not be fully functional. + +** The GnuTLS library is now also experimentally supported for https +downloads. This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by +default; use --with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS. OpenSSL is still +required for NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually +change. NOTE: Certificate verification is _not_ currently supported: +this means that you can currently only use GnuTLS to encrypt +connections, but _not_ to verify that a host is who it claims to be. Use +of OpenSSL is suggested until this missing feature is implemented. ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I, @@ -29,11 +77,6 @@ was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp. - -** The source code has migrated from CVS to Subversion. The -repository is available at http://svn.dotsrc.org/repo/wget/; to -checkout the trunk to a directory named `wget', use something like -`svn checkout http://svn.dotsrc.org/repo/wget/trunk/ wget'. * Changes in Wget 1.10.