X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f5469ab7d88308f32e8c9b3ab58cebe5b5b394f5;hb=974716d49e00efd048be31e98bc2fd7435b6177f;hp=318840dc91cbae06937cbc7b48692e416247d1f6;hpb=53d0aff795316dc1a4b785632f0d4d93c861e9cb;p=wget diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 318840dc..f5469ab7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,22 +1,41 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, -2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . -* Changes in Wget 1.11. +* 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 1.11.1. + +** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or +lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior. + +** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a +related assertion failure was fixed). -** TODO file removed: we use a bugtracker now; see -http://wget.addictivecode.org/BugTracker. Also, -http://wget.addictivecode.org/FeatureSpecifications. +** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should +know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). + +** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file +(regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). + +** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11 +authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be +useful for some limited cases. + +* Changes in Wget 1.11. ** 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 header in recursive fetches. @@ -31,22 +50,12 @@ 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. +** Wget now supports saving 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. However, the +current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is +EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition +to enable it. ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I, @@ -62,10 +71,11 @@ 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'. +** 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/. * Changes in Wget 1.10.