1 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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6 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
8 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
10 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
12 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
14 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
16 ** Wget speaks many languages!
18 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
19 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
20 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
22 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
24 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
26 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
28 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
30 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
31 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
33 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
36 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
37 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
39 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
42 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
43 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
46 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
48 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
49 standards set by other GNU utilities.
51 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
52 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
54 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
57 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
58 distributed with Wget.
60 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
62 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
64 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
66 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
68 ** Can do passive FTP.
72 ** Info documentation expanded.
74 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
76 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
80 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
82 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
83 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
85 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
87 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
89 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
92 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
94 ** --convert-links should work now.
98 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
102 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
104 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
106 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
108 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
109 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
110 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
111 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
112 most importantly, use.
114 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
115 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
117 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
118 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
119 wget http://user:password@hostname/
121 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
122 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
123 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
125 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
126 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
128 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
129 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
131 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
133 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
134 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
136 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
139 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
140 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
143 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
144 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
145 sysadmin to like you).
147 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
149 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
152 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
153 through a proxy server.
155 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
156 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
158 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
161 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
162 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
164 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
166 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
168 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
170 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
171 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
173 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
174 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
176 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
178 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
179 turn on mirroring options).
181 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
183 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
185 ** A host of bugfixes.
187 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
189 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
191 ** Added support for no_proxy
193 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
195 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
197 ** More natural command-line options
199 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
201 ** Added support for robots.txt
203 ** Fixed some minor bugs
205 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
207 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
209 ** REST supported in FTP
211 ** Proxy servers supported
213 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
214 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
215 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
217 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
219 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
221 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
223 ** autoconf supported
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