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

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xx.xx.2021 Release 2.0.0
  * 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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