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63 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer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