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GNU Wget 1.21.1 Released
     posted by darnir, Sat 09 Jan 2021 10:36:13 AM UTC

Noteworthy changes in this release:

  • Fix compilation on MacOS and Solaris 9
  • Remove bashism from configure.ac
  • Fix a compilation warning on 32-bit systems
GNU Wget 1.21 Released
     posted by darnir, Sat 09 Jan 2021 10:34:43 AM UTC

Noteworthy changes in this release:

  • Improve the number of translated strings
  • Remove all uses of alloca. In some places the length of untrusted strings has been used, e.g. strings from the command line or from remote.
  • Fix buffer overflows in progress bar code in some locales
[...]
GNU Wget 1.20 Released
     posted by darnir, Fri 30 Nov 2018 12:14:38 AM UTC

Noteworthy Changes in this release:

  • Add new option `--retry-on-host-error` to treat local errors as transient and hence Wget will retry to download the file after a brief waiting period.


  • Fixed multiple potential resource leaks as found by static analysis
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GNU wget 1.18 released
     posted by gscrivano, Thu 09 Jun 2016 04:33:15 PM UTC

Noteworthy changes

  • By default, on server redirects to a FTP resource, use the original URL to get the local file name. Close CVE-2016-4971.  This introduces a backward-incompatibility for HTTP->FTP redirects and

  any script that relies on the old  behaviour must use --trust-server-names. [...]

GNU wget 1.17.1 released
     posted by gscrivano, Fri 11 Dec 2015 07:20:08 PM UTC

Noteworthy changes:

  • Fix compile error when IPv6 is disabled or SSL is not present.
  • Fix HSTS memory leak.
  • Fix progress output in non-C locales.
  • Fix SIGSEGV when -N and --content-disposition are used together.
  • Add --check-certificate=quiet to tell wget to not print any warning about invalid certificates.
GNU wget 1.17 released
     posted by gscrivano, Sun 15 Nov 2015 03:12:08 PM UTC

** Remove FTP passive to active fallback due to privacy concerns.

** Add support for --if-modified-since.

** Add support for metalink through --input-metalink and --metalink-over-http.

** Add support for HSTS through --hsts and --hsts-file. [...]

GNU wget 1.16.3 released
     posted by gscrivano, Mon 09 Mar 2015 10:03:18 AM UTC

Noteworthy changes in Wget 1.16.3

Fix a regression introduced with 1.16.2, now --quiet is quiet again and doesn't print anything.

GNU wget 1.16.2 released
     posted by gscrivano, Sat 28 Feb 2015 05:22:49 PM UTC
  • Noteworthy changes in Wget 1.16.2


** Native uuid generation on Windows.

** Fix build on Solaris.

** Allow progress bar on stderr when -o is used.

** Accept 5-digit port numbers in FTP EPSV responses.

** Support older versions of flex.

** Updated translations.

GNU wget 1.16.1 released
     posted by gscrivano, Mon 08 Dec 2014 11:00:15 AM UTC
  • Noteworthy changes in Wget 1.16.1


** Add --enable-assert configure option.

** Use pkg-config to check for libraries presence.

** Do not limit --secure-protocol=auto|pfs to TLSv1.0.

** Add --secure-protocol=TLSv1_1|TLSv1_2 . [...]

GNU wget 1.16 released
     posted by gscrivano, Mon 27 Oct 2014 10:04:15 AM UTC
  • Noteworthy changes in Wget 1.16


** No longer create local symbolic links by default.  Closes CVE-2014-4877.

** Use libpsl for verifying cookie domains.

** Default progress bar output changed.

** Introduce --show-progress to force display the progress bar. [...]


Older News Approved
GNU wget 1.15 released posted by gscrivano, Wed 22 Jan 2014 05:45:37 PM UTC
GNU wget 1.14 released posted by gscrivano, Mon 06 Aug 2012 07:23:17 PM UTC
GNU wget 1.13.4 released posted by gscrivano, Sat 17 Sep 2011 07:52:07 PM UTC
GNU wget 1.13.3 released posted by gscrivano, Wed 31 Aug 2011 07:56:21 AM UTC
Wget repository migrated to Bazaar posted by gscrivano, Sat 01 May 2010 07:25:29 PM UTC

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