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Mon Dec 29 13:03:46 2008 UTC (4 years, 4 months ago) by phihag-guest
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Ported Chinese translation to trunk

1 appaji 72 UNRELEASED
2 phihag-guest 63
3     - Wait for thread termination in axel.c:axel_do (Closes: #311255), thanks John Ripa
4 phihag-guest 76 - New Chinese translation and manpage, thanks Shuge Lee
5 appaji 72 - Fix LFS support for FTP (Closes: #311320)
6 phihag-guest 74 - Fix LFS support (Closes: #311324)
7 phihag-guest 63
8 phihag-guest 54 Version 2.2:
9    
10     - Fix a buffer overflow in http.c:http_encode.
11    
12 appaji-guest 43 Version 2.1:
13    
14     - Fix version string. 2.0 still reported 1.1, thanks Ajay R Ramjatan
15     - Fix new MB/s display (was showing B/s). Thanks Philipp Hagemeister
16    
17 appaji-guest 25 Version 2.0:
18    
19 appaji-guest 40 - Large file support thanks thanks David Turnbull
20     - Custom Header Support thanks Eli Yukelzon
21     - New russian translation thanks newhren
22     - Fix segfault in -H option thanks Philipp Hagemeister
23     - Honour http_proxy and prefer it over HTTP_PROXY
24     - Add new RPM spec file thanks bbbush
25 appaji-guest 25
26 appaji-guest 40 Finished Sep 12 2008
27 appaji-guest 25
28 appaji-guest 19 Version 1.1:
29    
30     - Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
31     - Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
32     - Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
33     - Always compile with -g, disable -O3
34     - Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
35     - Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
36     - Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
37     - Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
38     - Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses
39    
40 appaji-guest 22 Finished Jan 18 2008
41    
42 appaji-guest 4 Version 1.0b:
43     - Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
44     - Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
45     - Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
46     axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
47     - Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
48     - Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)
49    
50     Finished Apr 06 2005
51    
52    
53 appaji-guest 2 Version 1.0a:
54     - gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
55     (but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
56     gstrip.
57     - Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
58     code.
59     - Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
60     - Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
61     - Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
62     connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
63     connections when using Linux..
64     - Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
65     - HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
66     - Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
67     - Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.
68    
69     Finished Feb 19 2002
70    
71    
72     Version 1.0:
73     - Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
74     previous versions if there is no active connection.
75     - Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
76     - Created a new build system.
77     - install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
78     - Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
79     - Corrected a little problem in de.po.
80     - Thrown out the packaging stuff.
81    
82     Finished Dec 6 2001
83    
84    
85     Version 0.99b brings you:
86     - Debian package bugfix.
87     - Restored i18n support.
88    
89     Finished Nov 16 2001
90    
91    
92     Version 0.99a brings you:
93     - Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.
94    
95     Finished Nov 10 2001
96    
97    
98     Version 0.99 brings you:
99     - Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
100     so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
101     - Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
102     - Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
103     to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
104     - Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
105     now, Axel's RFC compliant.
106     - For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
107     at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
108     which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
109     work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
110     - RPM package for axel-kapt added.
111    
112     Finished Nov 9 2001
113    
114    
115     Version 0.98 brings you:
116     - Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
117     did not affect the downloaded data.)
118     - For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
119     code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
120     this correctly now.
121     - Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
122     after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
123     handled correctly.
124     - Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
125     - 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
126     corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
127     work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
128     more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
129     keep it this way..
130     - Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.
131    
132     Finished Nov 3 2001
133    
134    
135     Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
136     - Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
137     it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
138     - All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
139     for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
140     disappear, by the way.
141     - HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
142     using the HEAD request.
143     - conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
144     - Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
145     proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
146     already.
147     - Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
148     Axel API.
149     - Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
150     - Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
151     a proxy now.
152     - A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
153     download from more than mirror at once.
154     - Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
155     Also fixed by 0.96a.
156     - Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
157     - The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
158     in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
159     - TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
160     when still in ASCII mode.
161     - ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
162     which is Not Good(tm).
163     - I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
164     - Tidied up the man-page a bit.
165     - Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
166     - Added axel-kapt interface.
167     - Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
168     This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
169     be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
170     program will append the correct filename.
171     - Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
172     for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
173     - Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
174     release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
175     Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...
176    
177     Finished Oct 25 2001
178    
179    
180     Version 0.96 brings you:
181     - Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
182     I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
183     0.95.
184    
185     Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
186     of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)
187    
188     And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.
189    
190    
191     Version 0.95 brings you:
192     - An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
193     used to be unable to reconnect. :(
194     - Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
195     - Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
196     - SIZE command is really used now.
197     - Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
198     - Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
199     them with the verbose-option.
200    
201     Finished Aug 7 2001
202    
203    
204     Version 0.94 brings you:
205     - 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
206     - Added 'make uninstall' option.
207     - Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
208     - It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
209     - Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
210     - select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
211     sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
212     problem in a more 'useful' way.
213    
214     Finished Jun 26 2001
215    
216    
217     Version 0.93 brings you:
218     - A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
219     works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
220     need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
221     - The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
222     Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
223     - You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
224     - The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
225     anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
226     if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
227     is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
228     - Local file existence check.
229     - Small bug fixed in conf.c.
230    
231     Finished May 22 2001
232    
233    
234     Version 0.92 brings you:
235     - A credits file!! ;)
236     - A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
237     - ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
238     - Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
239     can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
240     hack, but it works.
241     - config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
242     - A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
243     be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
244     output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)
245    
246     Finished May 11 2001
247    
248    
249     Version 0.91 brings you:
250     - A man page.
251     - A quiet mode.
252     - A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
253     0.9 release..)
254     - Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
255     - Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
256     - No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
257     bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
258     replies.. :(
259     - HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
260     - Support for empty configuration strings.
261     - URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
262     of the correct http://slashdot.org/)
263    
264     Finished Apr 30 2001
265    
266    
267     Version 0.9 brings you:
268     - See the README for all the old features.
269     - Internationalization support.
270     - Clearer error messages.
271     - Probably some bug fixes too.
272     - A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)
273    
274     Finished Apr 22 2001

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