GNU Wget2 NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.

Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Tim Ruehsen
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30.12.2025 Release v2.2.1
  * Fix file overwrite issue with metalink
  * Fix remote buffer overflow in get_local_filename_real()
  * Fix a redirect/mirror regression from 400713ca
  * Use the local system timestamp when requested via --no-use-server-timestamps
  * Prevent file truncation with --no-clobber
  * Improve messages about why URLs are not being followed
  * Fix metalink with -O/--output-document
  * Fix sorting of metalink mirrors by priority
  * Add --show-progress to improve backwards compatibility to wget
  * Fix buffer overflow in wget_iri_clone() after wget_iri_set_scheme()
  * Allow 'no_' prefix in config options
  * Use libnghttp2 for HTTP/2 testing
  * Fix WolfSSL build issue if SSLv2 isn't built into the library
  * Set exit status to 8 on 403 response code
  * Fix convert-links
  * Fix --server-response for HTTP/1.1
  * Fix anchor links in README.md for Gitlab
  * Fix html examples in the documentation
  * Improvements on code, docs and CI/testing

24.11.2024 Release v2.2.0
  * Don't truncate file when -c and -O are combined
  * Don't log URI userinfo to logs
  * Fix downloading multiple files via HTTP/2
  * Fix redirections with --no-parent
  * Support connecting with HTTP/1.0 proxies
  * Ignore 1xx HTTP responses for HTTP/1.1
  * Fix status 8 for failed redirection of robots.txt
  * Fix ignoring connect timeout (regression)
  * Disable TCP Fast Open by default
  * Fix --dns-cache-preload for IPv6
  * Accept --progress=dot:... for backwards compatibility
  * Disable explicit OCSP requests by default
  * Fix segfault when OCSP response is missing
  * Fix OCSP verification of first intermediate certificate
  * Allow option --no-tcp-fastopen to work on Linux kernels >= 4.11
  * Limit cases where methods are redirected to GET
  * Fix possible deadlock when combining --no-clobber and --no-parent
  * Fix xattr reading of user.mime_type
  * Fix --no-parent for denormalized paths
  * Fix robots.txt parser
  * Several improvements to the WolfSSL code
  * Fix IPv6 address representation
  * Fix --restrict-file-names to be backwards compatible with wget 1.x
  * Add fetchmail compatibility for user/password in .netrc
  * Improve suport for non-standard cookie timestamps
  * Add libproxy support
  * Add instruction on how to cross-build wget2.exe via docker
  * Don't request preferred mime type for single file downloads
  * Slightly improved compatibility with LibreSSL

31.08.2023 Release v2.1.0
  * New option --follow-sitemaps
  * New option --dane (cert validation via DNS)
  * Implement --check-certificate=quiet
  * Support proxies on non-default ports
  * Added CIDR support for no_proxy (IPv4 and IPv6)
  * Improve recursive RSS/Atom processing
  * Improve default cert/bundle paths for Windows
  * Improve Windows and MSVC compatibility
  * Use CONNECT for https_proxy
  * Add decoding numeric XML entities
  * Improve OpenSSL code
  * Improve WolfSSL code
  * Improve the progress bar
  * New function wget_xml_decode_entities_inline()
  * Support compilation of wget.h from C++
  * Handle comments in robots.txt correctly
  * Fix parsing HTML/XML entities in URLs from HTML/XML
  * Fix use-after-free when updating blacklist entries
  * Don't try setting file timestamps on ttys
  * Fix arguments parsing for --filter-urls
  * Fix removing fragments when converting links
  * Fix duplicate downloads for Link headers with rel=duplicate
  * Fix segmentation fault (NULL dereference when no HTTP header has been received)
  * Change arguments of wget_iri_compare to const
  * Fix memory leak in wget_hashmap_clear()
  * Extend network error messages with hostname and IP address
  * Fix status code for 5xx errors
  * Fix issue in wget_buffer_trim()
  * Improve tests, documentation, building

27.05.2022 Release v2.0.1
  * Fix escaping space in query part
  * Set EXIT_STATUS_NETWORK on error for the last try
  * Fix -k/--convert-links fragment
  * Fix escapng URLs with -k/--convert-links
  * Fix false reporting of a PSL error
  * Fix --directory-prefix with --content-disposition
  * Allow spaces and \ escaping in passwords in .netrc
  * Fix download abortion on some versions of Windows
  * Fix --unlink behavior
  * Fix deflate decompression when server omits the header
  * WolfSSL: Fix buffer overflow in SHA512 hashing
  * WolfSSL: Fix memory leak
  * Add support for unquoted HTML attribute values
  * OpenSSL: Fix several OCSP issues
  * Use keep-alive for HTTP/1.1 and higher as default
  * Don't create core dumps on CTRL-c
  * Fix replacing Content-Type: headers
  * Fix NULL pointer read / segfault
  * Fix several build issues
  * Fix several documentation issues

12.09.2021 Release v2.0.0
  * OpenSSL: Fix CRL checking
  * OpenSSL: Implement ALPN
  * OpenSSL: Fix memory leaks
  * Update license information
  * Fix for reproducible builds
  * Add Accept-Encoding: lzip
  * Rename --retry-on-http-status to --retry-on-http-error
  * Limit to page requisites only for leaf pages
  * Allow list of tokens for Connection: header
  * Fix directory clash with --no-clobber
  * Fix NULL dereference with --convert-links
  * Using --robots=off downloads robots.txt
  * Add pkg-config support for GPGME
  * Fix conversion (-k) in combination with -E
  * Fix cookie file header to be recognized by 'file' command
  * Fix loading CA certs when 'system' is not supported
  * Add option --method, improving backward compatibility
  * Add option --body-data, improving backward compatibility
  * Add option --body-file, improving backward compatibility
  * Add option --ignore-length, improving backward compatibility
  * Add option --convert-file-only, improving backward compatibility
  * Add option --download-attr to make use of the HTML5 'download' attribute
  * Support terminal hyperlinks in output
  * Configure switch --disable-manylibs to disable building small libraries
  * Support --background on Windows
  * Add option --bind-interface
  * Add HTTP2 uploading
  * Support the HTML download attribute (for a and area tags)
  * Add option --download-attr=[strippath|usepath] to control download attribute support
  * OpenSSL: Add OCSP support
  * OpenSSL: Implement OCSP stapling
  * Support data: URL in srcset attribute
  * Fixed diverse issues
  * Improved code, documentation, building, testing, CI, ...

30.08.2019 Release 1.99.2 (beta)
  * Improve docs
  * Improve build system
  * More continuous integration testing
  * Add functionality tests
  * Add examples
  * Add HTTP/2 support for test suite (GSOC project)
  * Add OCSP responder for test suite (GSOC project)
  * Add new option --keep-extension
  * Add new option --retry-on-http-status
  * Add new option --dns-cache-preload
  * Add -X/--exclude-directories and -I/--include-directories
  * Add new option --save-content-on
  * Add new option --limit-rate
  * Add new option --unlink (Wget1.x compatibility)
  * Add new option --start-pos (Wget1.x compatibility)
  * Add new option --no-if-modified-since
  * Add new option --ocsp-server
  * Add new option --ocsp-nonce
  * Add new option --ocsp-date
  * Add bitmap type to libwget
  * Add support for Chromium's HSTS Preload List
  * Add zstd decompression (RFC8478)
  * Add WolfSSL as alternative TLS backend
  * Add OpenSSL as alternative TLS backend
  * Add arguments fail / nofail to --verify-sig
  * Add TLSv1_x to --secure-protocol
  * Add support for TCP FastOpen Linux 4.11+ style
  * Add basic HTML entity decoding (RFC1866)
  * Add TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication
  * Add XDG Desktop Specification support for config files
  * Remove support for libidn2 < 0.14 and libunistring
  * Remove option --gnutls-options (use --secure-protocol instead)
  * Rename --dns-caching to --dns-cache (Wget1.x compatibility)
  * Skip -np/--no-parent for CSS URLs
  * Enable syncing with translationproject.org while bootstrapping
  * Fix HTTP/2 slowness issue
  * Fix xattr behavior (CVE-2018-20483)
  * Fixed a pile of bugs
  * Made many changes to the libwget API


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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