X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b5f4cbf40b62c75da17b9ca373201c7d0fb06686;hp=7d15a98af35f2c029a6faec8ac6b8f021c40ccdc;hb=186200fb6eb5f1c78ef21349fc34f05e6c48ee21;hpb=44a22c78a76e6733dd4d420a236be0963f00f4c5 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7d15a98a..b5f4cbf4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,15 +1,85 @@ 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, 2010, 2011 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 1.13.1 -** --default-page option added to support alternative default names for -index.html. +** 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. Fixed by Joao +Ferreira . ** Added support for CSS. This includes: - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML @@ -22,11 +92,39 @@ index.html. CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek . +** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC +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). + +** --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. --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 + +** 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 @@ -457,7 +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.