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.
13 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
15 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
17 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
19 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
21 ** Wget speaks many languages!
23 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
24 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
25 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
27 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
29 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
31 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
33 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
35 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
36 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
38 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
41 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
42 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
44 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
47 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
48 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
51 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
53 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
54 standards set by other GNU utilities.
56 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
57 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
59 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
62 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
63 distributed with Wget.
65 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
67 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
69 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
71 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
73 ** Can do passive FTP.
77 ** Info documentation expanded.
79 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
81 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
85 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
87 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
88 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
90 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
92 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
94 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
97 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
99 ** --convert-links should work now.
103 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
107 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
109 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
111 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
113 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
114 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
115 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
116 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
117 most importantly, use.
119 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
120 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
122 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
123 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
124 wget http://user:password@hostname/
126 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
127 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
128 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
130 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
131 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
133 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
134 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
136 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
138 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
139 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
141 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
144 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
145 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
148 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
149 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
150 sysadmin to like you).
152 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
154 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
157 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
158 through a proxy server.
160 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
161 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
163 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
166 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
167 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
169 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
171 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
173 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
175 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
176 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
178 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
179 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
181 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
183 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
184 turn on mirroring options).
186 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
188 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
190 ** A host of bugfixes.
192 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
194 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
196 ** Added support for no_proxy
198 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
200 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
202 ** More natural command-line options
204 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
206 ** Added support for robots.txt
208 ** Fixed some minor bugs
210 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
212 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
214 ** REST supported in FTP
216 ** Proxy servers supported
218 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
219 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
220 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
222 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
224 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
226 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
228 ** autoconf supported
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