-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of
GNU Wget 1.11 It's been over two years since the last release, 1.10.2, but we've made it. (Thanks mainly to the efforts of Wget's previous maintainer, Mauro Tortonesi - thanks Mauro!) The source code is available available at - http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/ - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/ Documentation is at - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/ Wget now has a wiki! The Wget Wgiki, http://wget.addictivecode.org/ . Among the various improvements over version 1.10.2 are: - Migration to the GPLv3+ license. - Improvements to the HTTP password authentication code, bringing it a little closer to RFC compliance (more is needed). - Basic support for respecting filenames specified via `Content-Disposition' headers (turned on with --content-disposition, but please read the documentation). - An --ignore-case option to make wildcard- and suffix-matching case-sensitive. - The --spider feature is working again (was broken in previous release). - Myriad bug-fixes (of course!). We're excited about Wget's future, with such planned improvements as: - Support for downloading and converting links in CSS files and stylesheet elements/attributes. - Support for using GNUTLS to handle encrypted sessions. - Better international support (IRIs, IDNs). - HTTP/1.1 - Regex-based filename accept/reject. - "Content-Type"-based accept/reject. - More efficient/complete support for Content-Disposition, to be enabled by default. - Fully RFC-compliant HTTP authentication. - Non-echoing password prompting. And (more down-the-road): - Support for processing multiple simultaneous connections - Better fine-grained control over configuration settings (such as URI-specific settings). - A more generalized resource-storage mechanism, allowing not only recursive fetches to the filesystem, but to (say) tarballs or MIME multipart/related entities (.mht files), etc. . The GNU Wget project is in serious need of development help. If you'd like to ensure that the next release of Wget arrives before another two years elapse, please, _please_ get involved. See http://wget.addictivecode.org/HelpingWithWget for information on how you can help out. We also currently have an IRC channel, #wget on irc.freenode.net. Various people are come there to ask questions about using Wget, but currently only the project maintainer is hanging around to answer them (when I'm able!). If you've found Wget to be a valuable tool, and would like to help other people learn how to make good use of it (or, of course, if you have questions about how to use it yourself), please do come by! . GNU Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic, who graciously donated it to the Free Software Foundation. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHm4hQ7M8hyUobTrERAkRjAKCB4dTxjshcjVtGDi8iuGVPumliSgCfchIu /vB1wCyG1xyDz4uDAuuSz1k= =6IVS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
