X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b5f4cbf40b62c75da17b9ca373201c7d0fb06686;hp=4467817c68cf58ebc9737ca625d01c843c08f015;hb=186200fb6eb5f1c78ef21349fc34f05e6c48ee21;hpb=b014f8fae9291e7504c0cca2dd8b9a0035466c03 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4467817c..b5f4cbf4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,85 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, -2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . +* Changes in Wget 1.13.1 + +** Support HTTP/1.1 + +** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of + OpenSSL. + +** Fix some portability issues. + +** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response. + +** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy. + +** Set new cookies after an authorization failure. + +** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file. + +** Cope better with unclosed html tags. + +** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout. + +** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used, + but use directly GET. + +** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified + and -c influences the transferred data amount. + +** GNU TLS backend works again. + +** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together. + +** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the + local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a + backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old + behaviour must use --trust-server-names. + +** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough + CSS. + +** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following + links. + +** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them. + +** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads. + +** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough + the --config option. + +** Fix an infinite loop with the error ' has sprung into existence' + on a network error and -nc is used. + +** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends + in .htm. + +** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method. + +** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used + by the same host on different pages. + +** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but + it is the output destination file. + +** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to + a DNS name when it is resolved. + * 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. +embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao +Ferreira . ** Added support for CSS. This includes: - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML @@ -26,11 +93,10 @@ embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. . ** 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. +3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), 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). @@ -40,7 +106,7 @@ 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. @@ -49,7 +115,8 @@ 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.. +the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is +still acceptable, but is now deprecated. ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes @@ -488,7 +555,7 @@ passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean. ** A number of new translation files have been added. -** New --bind-address / bind_address =
option for people on hosts +** New --bind-address / bind_address =
option for people on hosts bound to multiple IP addresses. ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.