X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fc1e8e27a33a9d9cafaeb3d6874464b9cc780741;hb=7c802e58d3e45e3a21d99c8d24dc5be806ecf174;hp=073a95bda46873cdbcda5219ac9672d12cb490d9;hpb=bda244f5645a636ec7a76d30198e473d956736cf;p=wget diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 073a95bd..fc1e8e27 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,20 +7,19 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . * Changes in Wget 1.9. -** The build process now requires Autoconf 2.5x. - ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will send a POST request with the specified contents. ** IPv6 is experimentally supported. -** The `--timeout' option now affects the connect timeout as well. -Previously it only affected reading and writing data. +** The `--timeout' option now affects DNS lookup and establishing the +connection as well. Previously it only affected reading and writing +data. ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download. -The ETA is still based on the average speed, though. +The ETA projection is still based on the overall average. ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically @@ -32,6 +31,27 @@ considered a fatal error. ** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from caching DNS lookups. + +** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on +whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for +nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent +characters such as space. You can use the new option +--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be +useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to +non-native partitions. + +** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what +users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML +declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->". +Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior. + +** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such +as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg". + +** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept +values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off". + +* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.