X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4467817c68cf58ebc9737ca625d01c843c08f015;hp=2d0092f47932591220450654fcd6abedba6ddb0e;hb=edc9055768fed952b30629a9e8fa38ef68761882;hpb=8bc61d7026e2dbfe117ab9362b23ef022931b713 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2d0092f4..4467817c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, -2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org +** 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. @@ -28,6 +32,9 @@ 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. +** 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. @@ -41,8 +48,16 @@ an external file. 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. +** --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. * Changes in Wget 1.11.4