Hi, "Towle, Jonathan J." <[email protected]> writes:
> We are running various versions of wget on our servers. > > On the server we need to use, we are running the very old version > 1.9.1. We could upgrade either to 1.11.4, which we have on most of > our servers, or the latest version. > > Our operate team is afraid to upgrade because existing production jobs > are running 1.9.1. I assured them that it is almost certain that the > newer versions are backwards-compatible, and nothing will stop > working. > > Can someone confirm that all these versions are backwards-compatible? we have always tried to be careful and keep backwards-compatibility, but I know at least of a change in the latest releases that breaks it. Newest releases need that you specify --trust-server-names to get the same behaviour of older ones. There might be other changes that break the compatibility, but I am not aware of any. > This transmission may contain information that is privileged, > confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure > under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you > are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or > use of the information contained herein (including any reliance > thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and > any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other > defect that might affect any computer system into which it is > received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to > ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by > JPMorgan Chase & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as > applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. > If you received this transmission in error, please immediately > contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, > whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. you have sent the e-mail to a public mailing list. -- Giuseppe
