Release of the GNU Wget2 project 2.2.0 has been presented, which develops a rewritten from scratch and completely revamped version of the program for automating recursive content downloads of GNU Wget. Wget2 provides a set of additional options, supports multi-threaded downloads, allows access to available functionality via the libwget library, supports HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 protocols, enables downloading only changed data, can save data from streaming servers, correctly handles internationalized domain names, and can transcode downloaded content. The wget2 utility is distributed under the GPLv3+ license, and the library under LGPLv3+.
I den nya versionen:
- Support for the libproxy library has been added, allowing connection through a proxy with HTTP/1.0 support.
- By default, TCP FastOpen mode is disabled. The option 'âno-tcp-fastopen' can be used with Linux kernels starting from version 4.11.
- By default, explicit querying using the OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) for checking revoked certificates is disabled.
- Support for the options 'âprogress=dot:' and 'ârestrict-file-names' has been added for backward compatibility with wget 1.x.
- Redirection handling has been improved when using the 'âno-parent' option, and issues with downloading multiple files simultaneously via HTTP/2 have been resolved.
- The parsing of robots.txt files has been improved.
- Better support for building with the WolfSSL and LibreSSL libraries has been implemented.
- IPv6 support has been enhanced.
- Compatibility with the fetchmail utility when processing login and password in the .netrc file has been ensured.
- Support for non-standard time formats in cookies has been added.
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