X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4467817c68cf58ebc9737ca625d01c843c08f015;hp=3b49ca884cbb08fc7fa284378911c51b32f4577d;hb=edc9055768fed952b30629a9e8fa38ef68761882;hpb=13117dc9a5c49511a32080df7b9db11c0006006a diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3b49ca88..4467817c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,132 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, +2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . +* Changes in Wget 1.12 + +** 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. + - 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. + +** 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. + +** --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. + +** --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 + +** 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 + +** 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. -** configure.in now requires autoconf >= 2.61, rather than 2.59. +** 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. @@ -23,14 +142,12 @@ 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 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. +** 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, @@ -46,10 +163,11 @@ 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'. +** 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.