GNU Wget - News
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
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
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
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. [...]
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 .
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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.
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