GNU Wget2 NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Tim Ruehsen
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30.05.2018 Release 1.99.1 (alpha)
* Enhance docs
* Enhance building on many platforms
* Enhance statistics
* Add --http2-request-window=SIZE
* Add --https-enforce=TYPE
* Add --compression=TYPE
* Add --retry-connrefused
* Add more fuzzing
* Add more tests
* Add more CI testing
* Fix bugs
11.01.2018 Release 1.99.0 (alpha)
* Add HTTP/2.0
* Add IDNA 2008 / TR46
* Add Travis-CI .yml file for Linux and MacOS
* Build with gnulib
* Moved to Doxygen (from GTK-Doc)
* Support Shoutcast response (ICY)
* Use colors for debug and error messages
* Use TCP Fast Open (TFO) for TLS handshakes
* Add TLS False Start
* Add TLS Session resumption
* Add sanitizer configure options
* Add 'make check-coverage' for viewing test code coverage
* Add Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
* Add brotli (br) compression method
* Add mime type filtering
* Add GPG signature checking
* Add fuzzing
* Add plugins
* Add statistic functions
* Use libmicrohttpd (MHD) for testing
*** Previous Mget releases ***
02.05.2015
New release v0.1.9
Made cross-compilable with MinGW on Linux
Fix for 'unsigned char' architectures
Add --follow-tags and --ignore-tags
Added multithreaded progress bar (--progress=bar)
Added --backups
Added --post-data and --post-file
Add port to Referer HTTP header
Fixed race condition when having a filename / directory clash
Added --crl-file option to respect CRLs
Added OCSP (stapling + responder request)
Added --ocsp and --ocsp-stapling
Added OCSP response caching
Added pkg-config support for library searching
Added wildcard support for -D/--domains and --exclude-domains
Removed --load-hsts and --save-hsts (will be automatically done)
Compilable on Solaris
Fixed lots of Coverity scan issues
Fixed several small bugs
27.08.2014
New release v0.1.8
forgot to bump up version
27.08.2014
New release v0.1.7
added -m / --mirror
added descriptions of options to --help
15.08.2014
New release v0.1.6
Check cookie domains via libpsl against the Public Sufix List
Fixed -p/--page-requisites
Fixed HTML parsing of uppercase attributes (fixes issue #21)
Added --accept, --reject, --ignore-case
Added -k/--convert-links and -K/--backup-converted
08.03.2014
Fixed sigfault in cookie handling, introduced in v0.1.5.
02.03.2014
Added --gnutls-options to directly set a GnuTLS priority string for secure connections.
26.02.2014
New release v0.1.5
19.02.2014
Added support for RFC 6266 Content-Disposition
17.02.2014
Fixed a race condition that could lead to sigfaults.
Fixed waiting for threads at program exit.
16.02.2014
Made HTTPS test work with GnuTLS 2.12.
Added option -/t--tries to Wget.
12.02.2014
Added HTTPS server code, used in test suite.
Added new test test-i-https.
06.02.2014
Changed the naming convention of types.
Support pkg-config.
Fixed generating of man pages.
01.02.2014
Added support for RFC 6797 HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
Do not download robots.txt twice for HTTP and HTTPS if --protocol-directories
is not given.
24.01.2014
New release v0.1.4
Use libnettle for checksumming if libgnutls is not available or < 2.10.0.
21.01.2014
Gtk-doc is not required any more to configure and compile the project.
Made project configurable and compilable on Cygwin.
17.01.2014
Release first public version v0.1.3 (master branch)
Created new branch 'develop' for further hacking.
02.01.2014
Added support for bzip2 Content-Encoding / Accept-Encoding type.
It was easy going after having gzip and lzma decompression implemented.
Created a mailing list for discussions around Wget.
Subscribe by sending a mail to wget-bugs+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
31.12.2013
Added support for XZ / LZMA Content-Encoding / Accept-Encoding type (LZMA2 compression).
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/LZMA2_Compression for setting up an Apache to support it.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559 for Firefox/Mozilla discussion.
30.12.2013
Extended --adjust-extension to attach .rss resp. .atom to RSS and Atom Feeds.
Implemented Wget options -w/--wait, --random-wait, -t/--tries.
With these you can (randomly) slow down website downloading.
25.12.2013
Added URL scanning of RSS 2.0 feeds using the internal XML parser.
15.12.2013
Added URL scanning of Atom 1.0 feeds using the internal XML parser.
24.11.2013
Added URL scanning of sitemaps using the internal XML parser.
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