X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=559558e741397b0e4f01bf901f3fe792aeda7553;hp=a57747942afb81491f837cc56f02ec479780c038;hb=d763f8bf6d6e13ce006ffab616cc8a77e747a633;hpb=b30a0dd817886f77a64be9218c5e5399bcbc2e67 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a5774794..559558e7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ 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 . -* Changes in Wget 1.12 (MAINLINE) +* Changes in Wget 1.12 + +** 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 @@ -19,11 +21,36 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . 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. + +** --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