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Fix size limits when copying strings (Closes: #311569)
1 UNRELEASED:
2
3 - Fix thread hangups due to incorrect synchronization (Closes: #311469), thanks Yao Shi
4 - Fix size limits when copying strings (Closes: #311569), thanks Michael Schwendt and the Fedora project members
5
6 Version 2.3
7
8 - Wait for thread termination in axel.c:axel_do (Closes: #311255), thanks John Ripa
9 - New Chinese translation and manpage, thanks Shuge Lee
10 - Fix LFS support for FTP (Closes: #311320)
11 - Fix LFS support (Closes: #311324), thanks Rodrigue Le Bayon
12
13 Version 2.2:
14
15 - Fix a buffer overflow in http.c:http_encode.
16
17 Version 2.1:
18
19 - Fix version string. 2.0 still reported 1.1, thanks Ajay R Ramjatan
20 - Fix new MB/s display (was showing B/s). Thanks Philipp Hagemeister
21
22 Version 2.0:
23
24 - Large file support thanks thanks David Turnbull
25 - Custom Header Support thanks Eli Yukelzon
26 - New russian translation thanks newhren
27 - Fix segfault in -H option thanks Philipp Hagemeister
28 - Honour http_proxy and prefer it over HTTP_PROXY
29 - Add new RPM spec file thanks bbbush
30
31 Finished Sep 12 2008
32
33 Version 1.1:
34
35 - Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
36 - Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
37 - Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
38 - Always compile with -g, disable -O3
39 - Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
40 - Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
41 - Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
42 - Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
43 - Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses
44
45 Finished Jan 18 2008
46
47 Version 1.0b:
48 - Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
49 - Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
50 - Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
51 axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
52 - Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
53 - Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)
54
55 Finished Apr 06 2005
56
57
58 Version 1.0a:
59 - gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
60 (but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
61 gstrip.
62 - Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
63 code.
64 - Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
65 - Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
66 - Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
67 connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
68 connections when using Linux..
69 - Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
70 - HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
71 - Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
72 - Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.
73
74 Finished Feb 19 2002
75
76
77 Version 1.0:
78 - Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
79 previous versions if there is no active connection.
80 - Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
81 - Created a new build system.
82 - install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
83 - Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
84 - Corrected a little problem in de.po.
85 - Thrown out the packaging stuff.
86
87 Finished Dec 6 2001
88
89
90 Version 0.99b brings you:
91 - Debian package bugfix.
92 - Restored i18n support.
93
94 Finished Nov 16 2001
95
96
97 Version 0.99a brings you:
98 - Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.
99
100 Finished Nov 10 2001
101
102
103 Version 0.99 brings you:
104 - Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
105 so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
106 - Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
107 - Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
108 to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
109 - Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
110 now, Axel's RFC compliant.
111 - For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
112 at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
113 which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
114 work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
115 - RPM package for axel-kapt added.
116
117 Finished Nov 9 2001
118
119
120 Version 0.98 brings you:
121 - Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
122 did not affect the downloaded data.)
123 - For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
124 code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
125 this correctly now.
126 - Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
127 after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
128 handled correctly.
129 - Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
130 - 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
131 corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
132 work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
133 more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
134 keep it this way..
135 - Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.
136
137 Finished Nov 3 2001
138
139
140 Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
141 - Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
142 it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
143 - All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
144 for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
145 disappear, by the way.
146 - HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
147 using the HEAD request.
148 - conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
149 - Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
150 proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
151 already.
152 - Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
153 Axel API.
154 - Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
155 - Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
156 a proxy now.
157 - A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
158 download from more than mirror at once.
159 - Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
160 Also fixed by 0.96a.
161 - Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
162 - The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
163 in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
164 - TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
165 when still in ASCII mode.
166 - ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
167 which is Not Good(tm).
168 - I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
169 - Tidied up the man-page a bit.
170 - Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
171 - Added axel-kapt interface.
172 - Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
173 This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
174 be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
175 program will append the correct filename.
176 - Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
177 for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
178 - Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
179 release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
180 Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...
181
182 Finished Oct 25 2001
183
184
185 Version 0.96 brings you:
186 - Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
187 I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
188 0.95.
189
190 Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
191 of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)
192
193 And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.
194
195
196 Version 0.95 brings you:
197 - An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
198 used to be unable to reconnect. :(
199 - Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
200 - Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
201 - SIZE command is really used now.
202 - Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
203 - Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
204 them with the verbose-option.
205
206 Finished Aug 7 2001
207
208
209 Version 0.94 brings you:
210 - 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
211 - Added 'make uninstall' option.
212 - Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
213 - It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
214 - Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
215 - select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
216 sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
217 problem in a more 'useful' way.
218
219 Finished Jun 26 2001
220
221
222 Version 0.93 brings you:
223 - A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
224 works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
225 need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
226 - The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
227 Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
228 - You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
229 - The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
230 anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
231 if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
232 is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
233 - Local file existence check.
234 - Small bug fixed in conf.c.
235
236 Finished May 22 2001
237
238
239 Version 0.92 brings you:
240 - A credits file!! ;)
241 - A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
242 - ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
243 - Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
244 can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
245 hack, but it works.
246 - config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
247 - A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
248 be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
249 output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)
250
251 Finished May 11 2001
252
253
254 Version 0.91 brings you:
255 - A man page.
256 - A quiet mode.
257 - A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
258 0.9 release..)
259 - Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
260 - Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
261 - No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
262 bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
263 replies.. :(
264 - HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
265 - Support for empty configuration strings.
266 - URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
267 of the correct http://slashdot.org/)
268
269 Finished Apr 30 2001
270
271
272 Version 0.9 brings you:
273 - See the README for all the old features.
274 - Internationalization support.
275 - Clearer error messages.
276 - Probably some bug fixes too.
277 - A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)
278
279 Finished Apr 22 2001

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