The release of the GNU Wget2 2.2.0 project is presented. It develops a completely rewritten and redesigned version of the program for automating recursive downloading of GNU Wget content. Wget2 provides a set of additional options, supports downloading in several threads, allows using the available functionality through the libwget library, supports the HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, allows downloading only changed data, can save data from streaming servers, correctly handles internationalized domain names and can recode the downloaded content. The wget2 utility is licensed under the GPLv3+ license, and the library under the LGPLv3+ license.
In the new version:
- Added support for the libproxy library and provided the ability to connect through a proxy with HTTP/1.0 support.
- TCP FastOpen mode is disabled by default. Added the ability to use the "--no-tcp-fastopen" option with Linux kernels since 4.11.
- By default, explicitly sending requests using the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) to check for revoked certificates is disabled.
- Added support for the "--progress=dot:" and "--restrict-file-names" options for backward compatibility with wget 1.x.
- Improved handling of redirects when using the "--no-parent" option and resolved issues with downloading multiple files simultaneously via HTTP/2.
- Improved parsing of robots.txt files.
- Improved support for building with WolfSSL and LibreSSL libraries.
- Improved IPv6 support.
- Ensured compatibility with the fetchmail utility when handling login and password in the .netrc file.
- Added support for non-standard time formats in Cookies.
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