wget2 is the official stable release of the successor to wget:
a fast multithreaded file and recursive website downloader using HTTP2,
HTTP compression, parallel connections, and If-Modified-Since HTTP
headers.
The library libwget provides the basic functions needed by a
modern web client.
The development package provides the documentation and linkage required
to use the library, configure, and build packages using it.
The library ABI has been upgraded to version 3 in package libwget2_3
with cygwget-3.dll.
It is a replacement only for the HTTP functions of the original wget,
as it does not support FTP or other protocols, so no longer supports
some of the options of its predecessor, but supports new features and
options.
For more information, see the project home page:
https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- wget2 2.2.1
- libwget2-devel 2.2.1
- libwget2_4 2.2.1
For changes since the previous Cygwin release, see below or the release
announcement:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00000.html
2025-12-30 2.2.1
- Fix file overwrite issue with metalink
- Fix remote buffer overflow in get_local_filename_real()
- Fix a redirect/mirror regression from 400713ca
- Use the local system timestamp when requested via --no-use-server-timestamps
- Prevent file truncation with --no-clobber
- Improve messages about why URLs are not being followed
- Fix metalink with -O/--output-document
- Fix sorting of metalink mirrors by priority
- Add --show-progress to improve backwards compatibility to wget
- Fix buffer overflow in wget_iri_clone() after wget_iri_set_scheme()
- Allow 'no_' prefix in config options
- Use libnghttp2 for HTTP/2 testing
- Fix WolfSSL build issue if SSLv2 isn't built into the library
- Set exit status to 8 on 403 response code
- Fix convert-links
- Fix --server-response for HTTP/1.1
- Fix anchor links in README.md for Gitlab
- Fix html examples in the documentation
- Improvements on code, docs and CI/testing
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