X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e7c854d683ca000506e765a50aa0e67527374d56;hb=61533a5ebcb778a2a0b574b862ea8a10395c053d;hp=41cc5c0e54a2e4927e522c1be1c2f4f9e5b7bd5b;hpb=fb7fc237f737989c06c2979cb366d8b32e689450;p=wget diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 41cc5c0e..e7c854d6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,24 @@ 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). + +** Wget uses Automake now. + * Changes in Wget 1.11. +** 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. + ** configure.in now requires autoconf >= 2.61, rather than 2.59. ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer @@ -28,12 +40,17 @@ be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow. 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. - -** 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. +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,