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-* Changes in Wget (MAINLINE).
+* Changes in Wget 1.12
-** Gnulib is now used to provide code for certain portability aspects in
-GNU Wget.
+** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
-** Wget uses Automake now as part of its build infrastructure.
+** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
+SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
+embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name.
+
+** Added support for CSS. This includes:
+ - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
+ style tags and attributes.
+ - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
+ --convert-links is specified.
+ - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
+ when --convert-links is specified.
+
+ CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
+ <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
+
+** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
+3987). When support is enabled (default), links with non-ASCII bytes
+are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8 before percent-encoding.
+
+ IRI support was added by Saint Xavier <wget@sxav.eu>, as his
+ project for the Google Summer of Code.
+
+** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
+don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
+
+** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
+support alternative default names for index.html.
+
+** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
+support password prompts at the console.
+
+** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
+an external file.
+
+** The output generated by the --version option now includes
+information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
+that were selected.
+
+** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
+the fact that it now also applies to CSS content..
+
+** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
+forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
+
+** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
+now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
+auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
+for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
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+* Changes in Wget 1.11.4
+
+** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
+download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
+
+** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
+remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
+locally with content.
+
+** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
+to a pointer-to-time_t.
+
+** Translation updates for Catalan.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.11.3
+
+** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
+
+** Translation updates
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.11.2
+
+** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
+(Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
+
+** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
+has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
+meaningful, is still an error.)
+
+** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
+(too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
+
+** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
+and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
+information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
+multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
+
+** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
+for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
+problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
+FTP URLs only.
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* Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
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