Hello, We are pleased to announce the new alpha version of GNU wget 1.19.
This alpha release is for testing only. Please report any problem you may experience to the bug-wget@gnu.org mailing list. The new version is available for download here: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.18.109-4734.tar.gz and the GPG detached signatures using the key 0x08302DB6A2670428: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.18.109-4734.tar.gz.sig Noteworthy changes: * New option --use-askpass=COMMAND. Fetch user/password by calling an external program. * Use IDNA2008 (+ TR46 if available) through libidn2 * When processing a Metalink header, --metalink-index=<number> allows to process the header's application/metalink4+xml files. * When processing a Metalink file, --trust-server-names enables the use of the destination file names specified in the Metalink file, otherwise a safe destination file name is computed. * When processing a Metalink file, enforce a safe destination path. Remove any drive letter prefix under w32, i.e. 'C:D:file'. Call libmetalink's metalink_check_safe_path() to prevent absolute, relative, or home paths: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854#section-4.1.2.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854#section-4.2.8.3 * When processing a Metalink file, --directory-prefix=<prefix> sets the top of the retrieval tree to prefix for Metalink downloads. * When processing a Metalink file, reject downloaded files which don't agree with their own metalink:size value: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854#section-4.2.16 * When processing a Metalink file, with --continue resume partially downloaded files and keep fully downloaded files even if they fail the verification. * When processing a Metalink file, create the parent directories of a "path/file" destination file name: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854#section-4.1.2.1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854#section-4.2.8.3 * On a recursive download, append a .tmp suffix to temporary files that will be deleted after being parsed, and create them readable/writable only by the owner. * New make target 'check-valgrind' * Fix several bugs * Fix compatibility issues Please report any problem you may experience to the bug-wget@gnu.org mailing list. For the maintainers of wget, Tim
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