GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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+* Changes in Wget 1.10.
+
+** Downloading files greater than 2GB, also known as "large files",
+now works on systems that support them. This includes most modern
+Unix variants, as well as Windows.
+
+** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
+1.9, this version has no problems with dual-family systems. The new
+flags `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the
+use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Unfortunately the IPv6 support
+still does not work on Windows.
+
+** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works. Previous
+versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for SSL URLs. Wget
+1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this purpose.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
+the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
+
+** Many 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 (normally only kept in memory) along with the
+permanent ones. Many sites track important information, such as
+whether the user has authenticated, using session cookies. Using this
+option option allows multiple Wget runs to be treated as a single
+browser session.
+
+* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
+\f
+* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
* Changes in Wget 1.9.
-** IPv6 is experimentally supported.
+** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
+requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
+send a POST request with the specified contents.
+
+** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
-** The `--timeout' option now affects the connect timeout as well.
-Previously it only affected reading and writing data.
+** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
+the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
+data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
+`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
+respectively.
** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
-The ETA is still based on the average speed, though.
+The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
+
+** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
+firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
+log on to the proxy as "username@host".
+
+** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
+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
+caching DNS lookups.
+
+** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
+whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
+nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
+characters such as space. You can use the new option
+--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
+useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
+non-native partitions.
+
+** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
+users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
+declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
+Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
+
+** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
+as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
+
+** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
+values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
+
+** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
+periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
+expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
+\f
+* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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