1 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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8 * Changes in Wget 1.7-dev
10 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in puts you in
11 some directory other than '/'.
13 ** "Keep-Alive" connections are now supported.
15 ** https URLs are now supported if you link wget with OpenSSL.
17 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
21 ** Administrative changes.
23 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
24 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a real job
25 as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both are being helped by
28 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
31 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
33 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
34 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
35 the web page for downloading instructions.
37 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
38 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
39 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
41 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
42 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
43 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
44 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
46 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
47 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
48 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
49 default in the system wgetrc.
51 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
52 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
53 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
55 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
56 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
57 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
59 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
60 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
61 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
63 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
65 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
66 bound to multiple IP addresses.
68 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
70 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
72 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
74 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
76 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
78 ** Wget speaks many languages!
80 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
81 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
82 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
84 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
86 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
88 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
90 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
92 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
93 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
95 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
98 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
99 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
101 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
104 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
105 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
108 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
110 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
111 standards set by other GNU utilities.
113 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
114 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
116 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
119 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
120 distributed with Wget.
122 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
124 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
126 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
128 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
130 ** Can do passive FTP.
134 ** Info documentation expanded.
136 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
138 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
142 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
144 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
145 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
147 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
149 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
151 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
154 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
156 ** --convert-links should work now.
160 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
164 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
166 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
168 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
170 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
171 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
172 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
173 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
174 most importantly, use.
176 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
177 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
179 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
180 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
181 wget http://user:password@hostname/
183 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
184 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
185 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
187 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
188 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
190 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
191 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
193 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
195 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
196 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
198 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
201 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
202 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
205 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
206 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
207 sysadmin to like you).
209 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
211 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
214 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
215 through a proxy server.
217 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
218 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
220 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
223 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
224 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
226 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
228 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
230 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
232 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
233 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
235 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
236 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
238 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
240 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
241 turn on mirroring options).
243 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
245 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
247 ** A host of bugfixes.
249 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
251 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
253 ** Added support for no_proxy
255 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
257 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
259 ** More natural command-line options
261 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
263 ** Added support for robots.txt
265 ** Fixed some minor bugs
267 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
269 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
271 ** REST supported in FTP
273 ** Proxy servers supported
275 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
276 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
277 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
279 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
281 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
283 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
285 ** autoconf supported
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