X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2d0092f47932591220450654fcd6abedba6ddb0e;hp=f7244d75895faf2221d61f10741c455beaf81a68;hb=bc7ea11d8eac6f2378731b98172d9f9facab3e78;hpb=0d0fe504355a7b71f3529247067979a0a9ad2933 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f7244d75..2d0092f4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,218 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, +2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . -* Changes in Wget 1.9+. +* Changes in Wget 1.12 -** 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. +** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org + +** 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 + . + +** 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 , as his + project for the Google Summer of Code. + +** --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. + +** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options +are now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent. + +* 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. + +* Changes in Wget 1.11.3 + +** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error. + +** Translation updates + +* Changes in Wget 1.11.2 -** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works. +** 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. + +* Changes in Wget 1.11.1. + +** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file +(regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). + +** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a +related assertion failure was fixed). + +** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should +know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). + +** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11 +authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be +useful for some limited cases. + +** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of +Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may +be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future. + +** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or +lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior. + +* Changes in Wget 1.11. + +** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response, +rather than the first one it got. + +** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer +header in recursive fetches. + +** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued, +for improved security. Authentication handling is still not +RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will +assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not +just the ones at or below the original authenticated location. +Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued +automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource. + +** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should +be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow. + +** Wget now supports saving 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. However, the +current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is +EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition +to enable it. + +** 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 been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are +available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source +code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can +still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion +repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/. + +* 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" @@ -36,22 +236,34 @@ 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'. +** 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' is useful because it -allows the user to override non-default behavior specified via -`.wgetrc'. +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. * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. @@ -81,7 +293,7 @@ log on to the proxy as "username@host". 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 @@ -486,7 +698,7 @@ geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that