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Sat Sep 13 05:42:08 2008 UTC (4 years, 8 months ago) by appaji-guest
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Update for upcoming 2.1
1 appaji-guest 43 Version 2.1:
2    
3     - Fix version string. 2.0 still reported 1.1, thanks Ajay R Ramjatan
4     - Fix new MB/s display (was showing B/s). Thanks Philipp Hagemeister
5    
6 appaji-guest 25 Version 2.0:
7    
8 appaji-guest 40 - Large file support thanks thanks David Turnbull
9     - Custom Header Support thanks Eli Yukelzon
10     - New russian translation thanks newhren
11     - Fix segfault in -H option thanks Philipp Hagemeister
12     - Honour http_proxy and prefer it over HTTP_PROXY
13     - Add new RPM spec file thanks bbbush
14 appaji-guest 25
15 appaji-guest 40 Finished Sep 12 2008
16 appaji-guest 25
17 appaji-guest 19 Version 1.1:
18    
19     - Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
20     - Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
21     - Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
22     - Always compile with -g, disable -O3
23     - Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
24     - Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
25     - Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
26     - Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
27     - Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses
28    
29 appaji-guest 22 Finished Jan 18 2008
30    
31 appaji-guest 4 Version 1.0b:
32     - Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
33     - Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
34     - Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
35     axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
36     - Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
37     - Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)
38    
39     Finished Apr 06 2005
40    
41    
42 appaji-guest 2 Version 1.0a:
43     - gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
44     (but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
45     gstrip.
46     - Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
47     code.
48     - Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
49     - Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
50     - Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
51     connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
52     connections when using Linux..
53     - Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
54     - HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
55     - Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
56     - Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.
57    
58     Finished Feb 19 2002
59    
60    
61     Version 1.0:
62     - Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
63     previous versions if there is no active connection.
64     - Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
65     - Created a new build system.
66     - install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
67     - Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
68     - Corrected a little problem in de.po.
69     - Thrown out the packaging stuff.
70    
71     Finished Dec 6 2001
72    
73    
74     Version 0.99b brings you:
75     - Debian package bugfix.
76     - Restored i18n support.
77    
78     Finished Nov 16 2001
79    
80    
81     Version 0.99a brings you:
82     - Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.
83    
84     Finished Nov 10 2001
85    
86    
87     Version 0.99 brings you:
88     - Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
89     so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
90     - Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
91     - Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
92     to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
93     - Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
94     now, Axel's RFC compliant.
95     - For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
96     at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
97     which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
98     work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
99     - RPM package for axel-kapt added.
100    
101     Finished Nov 9 2001
102    
103    
104     Version 0.98 brings you:
105     - Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
106     did not affect the downloaded data.)
107     - For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
108     code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
109     this correctly now.
110     - Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
111     after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
112     handled correctly.
113     - Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
114     - 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
115     corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
116     work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
117     more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
118     keep it this way..
119     - Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.
120    
121     Finished Nov 3 2001
122    
123    
124     Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
125     - Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
126     it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
127     - All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
128     for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
129     disappear, by the way.
130     - HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
131     using the HEAD request.
132     - conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
133     - Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
134     proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
135     already.
136     - Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
137     Axel API.
138     - Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
139     - Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
140     a proxy now.
141     - A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
142     download from more than mirror at once.
143     - Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
144     Also fixed by 0.96a.
145     - Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
146     - The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
147     in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
148     - TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
149     when still in ASCII mode.
150     - ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
151     which is Not Good(tm).
152     - I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
153     - Tidied up the man-page a bit.
154     - Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
155     - Added axel-kapt interface.
156     - Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
157     This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
158     be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
159     program will append the correct filename.
160     - Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
161     for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
162     - Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
163     release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
164     Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...
165    
166     Finished Oct 25 2001
167    
168    
169     Version 0.96 brings you:
170     - Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
171     I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
172     0.95.
173    
174     Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
175     of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)
176    
177     And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.
178    
179    
180     Version 0.95 brings you:
181     - An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
182     used to be unable to reconnect. :(
183     - Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
184     - Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
185     - SIZE command is really used now.
186     - Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
187     - Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
188     them with the verbose-option.
189    
190     Finished Aug 7 2001
191    
192    
193     Version 0.94 brings you:
194     - 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
195     - Added 'make uninstall' option.
196     - Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
197     - It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
198     - Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
199     - select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
200     sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
201     problem in a more 'useful' way.
202    
203     Finished Jun 26 2001
204    
205    
206     Version 0.93 brings you:
207     - A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
208     works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
209     need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
210     - The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
211     Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
212     - You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
213     - The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
214     anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
215     if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
216     is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
217     - Local file existence check.
218     - Small bug fixed in conf.c.
219    
220     Finished May 22 2001
221    
222    
223     Version 0.92 brings you:
224     - A credits file!! ;)
225     - A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
226     - ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
227     - Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
228     can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
229     hack, but it works.
230     - config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
231     - A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
232     be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
233     output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)
234    
235     Finished May 11 2001
236    
237    
238     Version 0.91 brings you:
239     - A man page.
240     - A quiet mode.
241     - A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
242     0.9 release..)
243     - Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
244     - Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
245     - No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
246     bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
247     replies.. :(
248     - HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
249     - Support for empty configuration strings.
250     - URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
251     of the correct http://slashdot.org/)
252    
253     Finished Apr 30 2001
254    
255    
256     Version 0.9 brings you:
257     - See the README for all the old features.
258     - Internationalization support.
259     - Clearer error messages.
260     - Probably some bug fixes too.
261     - A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)
262    
263     Finished Apr 22 2001

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