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Wed Jan 16 08:30:52 2008 UTC (5 years, 4 months ago) by appaji-guest
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1 appaji-guest 19 Version 1.1:
2    
3     - Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
4     - Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
5     - Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
6     - Always compile with -g, disable -O3
7     - Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
8     - Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
9     - Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
10     - Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
11     - Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses
12    
13 appaji-guest 4 Version 1.0b:
14     - Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
15     - Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
16     - Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
17     axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
18     - Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
19     - Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)
20    
21     Finished Apr 06 2005
22    
23    
24 appaji-guest 2 Version 1.0a:
25     - gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
26     (but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
27     gstrip.
28     - Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
29     code.
30     - Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
31     - Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
32     - Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
33     connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
34     connections when using Linux..
35     - Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
36     - HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
37     - Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
38     - Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.
39    
40     Finished Feb 19 2002
41    
42    
43     Version 1.0:
44     - Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
45     previous versions if there is no active connection.
46     - Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
47     - Created a new build system.
48     - install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
49     - Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
50     - Corrected a little problem in de.po.
51     - Thrown out the packaging stuff.
52    
53     Finished Dec 6 2001
54    
55    
56     Version 0.99b brings you:
57     - Debian package bugfix.
58     - Restored i18n support.
59    
60     Finished Nov 16 2001
61    
62    
63     Version 0.99a brings you:
64     - Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.
65    
66     Finished Nov 10 2001
67    
68    
69     Version 0.99 brings you:
70     - Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
71     so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
72     - Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
73     - Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
74     to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
75     - Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
76     now, Axel's RFC compliant.
77     - For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
78     at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
79     which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
80     work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
81     - RPM package for axel-kapt added.
82    
83     Finished Nov 9 2001
84    
85    
86     Version 0.98 brings you:
87     - Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
88     did not affect the downloaded data.)
89     - For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
90     code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
91     this correctly now.
92     - Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
93     after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
94     handled correctly.
95     - Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
96     - 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
97     corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
98     work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
99     more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
100     keep it this way..
101     - Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.
102    
103     Finished Nov 3 2001
104    
105    
106     Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
107     - Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
108     it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
109     - All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
110     for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
111     disappear, by the way.
112     - HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
113     using the HEAD request.
114     - conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
115     - Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
116     proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
117     already.
118     - Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
119     Axel API.
120     - Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
121     - Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
122     a proxy now.
123     - A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
124     download from more than mirror at once.
125     - Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
126     Also fixed by 0.96a.
127     - Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
128     - The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
129     in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
130     - TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
131     when still in ASCII mode.
132     - ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
133     which is Not Good(tm).
134     - I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
135     - Tidied up the man-page a bit.
136     - Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
137     - Added axel-kapt interface.
138     - Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
139     This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
140     be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
141     program will append the correct filename.
142     - Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
143     for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
144     - Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
145     release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
146     Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...
147    
148     Finished Oct 25 2001
149    
150    
151     Version 0.96 brings you:
152     - Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
153     I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
154     0.95.
155    
156     Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
157     of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)
158    
159     And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.
160    
161    
162     Version 0.95 brings you:
163     - An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
164     used to be unable to reconnect. :(
165     - Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
166     - Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
167     - SIZE command is really used now.
168     - Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
169     - Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
170     them with the verbose-option.
171    
172     Finished Aug 7 2001
173    
174    
175     Version 0.94 brings you:
176     - 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
177     - Added 'make uninstall' option.
178     - Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
179     - It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
180     - Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
181     - select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
182     sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
183     problem in a more 'useful' way.
184    
185     Finished Jun 26 2001
186    
187    
188     Version 0.93 brings you:
189     - A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
190     works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
191     need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
192     - The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
193     Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
194     - You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
195     - The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
196     anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
197     if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
198     is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
199     - Local file existence check.
200     - Small bug fixed in conf.c.
201    
202     Finished May 22 2001
203    
204    
205     Version 0.92 brings you:
206     - A credits file!! ;)
207     - A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
208     - ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
209     - Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
210     can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
211     hack, but it works.
212     - config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
213     - A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
214     be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
215     output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)
216    
217     Finished May 11 2001
218    
219    
220     Version 0.91 brings you:
221     - A man page.
222     - A quiet mode.
223     - A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
224     0.9 release..)
225     - Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
226     - Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
227     - No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
228     bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
229     replies.. :(
230     - HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
231     - Support for empty configuration strings.
232     - URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
233     of the correct http://slashdot.org/)
234    
235     Finished Apr 30 2001
236    
237    
238     Version 0.9 brings you:
239     - See the README for all the old features.
240     - Internationalization support.
241     - Clearer error messages.
242     - Probably some bug fixes too.
243     - A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)
244    
245     Finished Apr 22 2001

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