X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2d9af4f8272b49a0603c764dfa2a61f2f86762cd;hp=41911529662683cdd91a36470eb51b84e6ac0ce9;hb=e911bc29434b7da90446d2ca5304106724d05680;hpb=009d2ebcc446e9c9e3c252ef72a89473dc83e4ee diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 41911529..2d9af4f8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,21 +5,25 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . +* Changes in Wget 1.11. + +** 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. + * 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. +** 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 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. +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 @@ -34,6 +38,37 @@ 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. @@ -60,23 +95,33 @@ 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' 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. @@ -107,7 +152,7 @@ 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