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-* Changes in Wget 1.9+.
-
-** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files on FTP servers by
+* Changes in Wget 1.11.
+
+** Wget now saves HTTP downloads using file names specified by the
+`Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
+the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages.
+
+** The GnuTLS library is now also supported for https downloads.
+This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by default; use
+--with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS. OpenSSL is still required for
+NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually change.
+
+** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
+matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
+-A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
+
+** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
+in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
+logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
+
+** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
+was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
+broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
+`--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
+by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
+
+** The source code has migrated from CVS to Subversion. The
+repository is available at http://svn.dotsrc.org/repo/wget/; to
+checkout the trunk to a directory named `wget', use something like
+`svn checkout http://svn.dotsrc.org/repo/wget/trunk/ wget'.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.10.
+
+** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
+files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
+majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
+
+** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
+1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
+`--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
+IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
+tested on Windows.
+
+** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
+supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
+by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
+release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
+
+** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
+has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
+with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
+where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
+the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
+retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
+when downloading to stdout.
+
+** SSL/TLS changes:
+
+*** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
+against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
+certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
+OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
+yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
+from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
+and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
+command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
+
+*** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
+the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
+
+*** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
+unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
+previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
+otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
+verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
+requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
+can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
+
+*** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
+Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
+URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
+purpose.
+
+*** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
+first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
+are no longer supported.
+
+** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
+`--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
+revert to the old behavior.
+
+** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
+headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
+http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
+"foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
+`--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
+
+** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
+detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
+still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
+
+** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
+not arrive from the network.
+
+** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
which might not be what the user wants. The new option
`--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
be used to revert to the old behavior.
-** Many options that previously unconditionally set or unset features
-are now boolean options that can be invoked as `--OPTION[=yes/no]' or
-with `--no-OPTION'. This is useful because it allows you to specify
-non-default behavior via `.wgetrc' and then revert it again on the
-command-line.
+** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
+the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
+
+** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
+are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
+`--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
+also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
+backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
+write `--no-glob'.
+
+Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
+is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
+specified via `.wgetrc'.
** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
-save session cookies along with the permanent ones. This is useful on
-sites that require you to log in before you can access some pages.
-With this option, multiple Wget runs will be treated as a single
+save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
+permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
+information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
+cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
browser session.
+
+** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
+switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
+--password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
+and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
+been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
+the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
+http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
+.wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
+
+* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
+\f
+* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.9.
even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
considered a fatal error.
-** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from
+** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
caching DNS lookups.
** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
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