ChangeLog

Version: 2.17.14, 2024-04-07

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Remove inclusion of <stdatomic.h>
* configure: Fix handling of --with-ssl=yes
* configure: Force C89-compliant return type of signal handlers
* configure: Update to autoconf 2.72
* conn: Fix potential buffer overrun

  [ Peng-Yu Chen ]

* http: Fix filename parsing from Content-Disposition



Version: 2.17.13, 2024-02-06

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

  * abuf: Fix realloc usage
  * configure: Fix handling of --with-ssl
  * random: Initialize fd at startup



Version: 2.17.12, 2024-01-29
   
   [ Ahmet Arda Kavakcı ]

* Fixed a wrong translation for Turkish

  [ Cody M. Jones ]

* Implemented early redirect loop detection

  [ Elms ]

* Added LGTM.com support

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Buildsystem improvements
* Added wolfSSL support
* Fixed potential int overflow
* Simplified configuration support code
* Early redirect loop detection improvements
* Fixed speed-limiting sleep delay overflow
* Removed HTTP encoding of URLs on the CLI, should be pre-encoded

  [ Temuri Doghonadze ]

* Added Georgian translation



Version: 2.17.11, 2021-12-19

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed a deadlock in conn_info
* Fixed build on FreeBSD (workaround for hidden typedefs)
* Added SPDX license information
* Improved reporting of HTTP status codes
* Source-code simplifications
* Buildsystem improvements
  - Check intmax_t >= int64_t on Mac OS X
  - Improved output when pkg-config is unavailable

  [ Sean E. Russell ]

* Implemented percentage output mode for piping

  [ Dimitris Apostolou ]

* Fixed typos

  [ Ahmet Arda Kavakcı ]

* Added Turkish Translation



Version: 2.17.10, 2020-11-22

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Portability improvements
  - Made the stop signal handler portable
* Made build system improvements
  - Now you can specify where OpenSSL is installed
  - Fixed MinGW detection
  - Further improved portability
* Bug fixes
  - Potential null pointer dereference
  - Fixed incrementig procedure for delay_time
* Optimized wildcard search in URLs
* Added human-readable file size report at the begining of downloads
* Reworked Request Range support check
* Added "Accept-Encoding" header to requests
* Cleanup of Source Code
* Updated the documentation
* Updated translations

  [ Tianyi Wang ]

* Fixed speed limiting
* Fixed data type for sizes and offsets on 32-bit systems
* Fixed duplicated non-default port when using proxy
* Fixed request range comparison and overflow

  [ WhiredPlanck ]

* Fixed typos and warnings in Simplified Chinese translation



Version: 2.17.9, 2020-04-06

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Added coding style aid and licensing rules to CONTRIBUTING.md.
* Fixed some race conditions with conn_t.
* Updated and improved README.md.
* Cleanup of code & build system.
* Added a new buffer handling abstraction.
* Removed limitations on state file name length.
* Removed limitations on HTTP query length.
* Added some missing function documentation.
* Fixed insecure mode certificate checking error.
* Fixed progress bar for large number of connections.
* Made the help flag report axel's version number.

  [ Jason ]

* Fixed a memory leak when deleting the download state file.
* Improved the new buffer handling abstraction and ported HTTP header
  handling to it.
* Code cleanup.
* Updated Chinese translation.



Version: 2.17.8, 2020-04-06

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Code cleanup, documentation, and build system improvements
* Hostname wildcard matching support
* Replaced progressbar line clearing with terminal control sequence
* Updated translations: German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

  [ Jason ]

* Fixed parsing of Content-Disposition HTTP header

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Added missing copyrights to headers

  [ Ted Reed ]

* Added SSL Certificate Hostname verification support

  [ vewupom ]

* Check if custom HTTP headers fit into add_header
* Fixed User-Agent HTTP header never being included



Version: 2.17.7, 2020-01-26

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Buildsystem fixes
* Fixed release date for man-pages on BSD

  [ Park Ju Hyung ]

* Explicitly close TCP sockets on SSL connections too

  [ Shankar ]

* Fixed HTTP basic auth header generation

  [ Terry ]

* Changed the default progress report to "alternate output mode"

  [ retnikt ]

* Improved English in README.md



Version: 2.17.6, 2019-08-29

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed handling of non-recoverable HTTP errors
* Cleanup of connection setup code
* Fixed manpage reproducibility issue

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Use tracker instead of PTS from Debian



Version: 2.17.5, 2019-07-23

  [ Evangelos Foutras ]

* Fixed progress indicator misalignment

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Cleaned up the wget-like progress output code
* Improved progress output flushing



Version: 2.17.4, 2019-07-19

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed build with bionic libc (Android)
* TCP Fast Open support on Linux
* TCP code cleanup
* Removed dependency on libm
* Data types and format strings cleanup
* String handling cleanup
* Format string checking GCC attributes added
* Buildsystem fixes and improvements
* Updates to the documentation
* Updated all translations

  [ Jeong Ukjae ]

* Fixed Footnotes in documentation

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Fixed a typo in README.md

  [ Andrew Mussey ]

* Fixed a typo in README.md



Version: 2.17.3, 2019-05-20

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Builds now use canonical host triplet instead of `uname -s`
* Fixed build on Darwin / Mac OS X
* Fixed download loops caused by last byte pointer being off by one
* Fixed linking issues (i18n and posix threads)
* Updated build instructions
* Code cleanup

  [ Kun Ma ]

* Added autoconf-archive to building instructions



Version: 2.17.2, 2019-05-14

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed HTTP request-ranges to be zero-based
* Fixed typo "too may" -> "too many"
* Replaced malloc + memset calls with calloc

  [ Kun Ma ]

* Sanitize progress bar buffer len passed to memset



Version: 2.17.1, 2019-05-10

  [ Evangelos Foutras ]

* Fixed comparison error in axel_divide

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Make sure maxconns is at least 1



Version: 2.17, 2019-05-08

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed composition of URLs in redirections
* Fixed request range calculation
* Updated all translations
* Updated build documentation
* Major code cleanup
    - Cleanup of alternate progress output
    - Removed global string buffers
    - Fixed min and max macros
    - Moved User-Agent header to conf->add_header
    - Use integers for speed ratio and delay calculation

  [ Shankar ]

* Added support for parsing IPv6 literal hostname
* Fixed filename extraction from URL
* Fixed request-target message to proxy
* Handle secure protocol's schema even with SSL disabled
* Fixed Content-Disposition filename value decoding
* Strip leading hyphens in extracted filenames



Version: 2.16.1, 2017-12-05

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed building against static OpenSSL



Version: 2.16, 2017-11-25

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Buildsystem fixes and improvements
* Fixed bug that produces empty files with -q/--quiet
* Fixed build with --disable-nls
* Fixed formatting of the version/copyright message
* Header files reorganization
* Spanish translation
* Style fixes
* Updated Portuguese translation



Version: 2.15, 2017-10-11

  [ Antonio Quartulli ]

* Added a 65K limit on the number of connections
* Fixed progress report when total size isn't available
* Fixed size sanity check in HTTP Resp Header
* Fixes to the usage/help text
* Lots of security bugfixes
* Made dependency on axel->conn in axel_close() explicit
* Respect file size even when range request is not supported
* Return error if socket can't be created

  [ Casa Taloyum ]

* Added some missing Simplified Chinese translation strings

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Added "Accept" HTTP header to the requests, required by some sites
* Code cleanups and small bugfixes
* Fixed User-Agent, now it's "Axel/{VERSION} ({ARCH})"
* Fixed a race condition in the speed testing code
* Implemented connection and I/O timeouts
* Improvements to the buildsystem and scripts
* Updates to the documentation

  [ Mahyuddin ]

* Indonesian translation

  [Nicol Dalla Longa]

* Italian translation



Version 2.14.1, 2017-09-16

  [ Antonio Quartulli ]

* Avoid stall due to missing unlock.

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Added some automation to help update the ChangeLog (mkchangelog).

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Updated ChangeLog, CREDITS .po files and configure.ac.



Version 2.14, 2017-09-10

  [ Antonio Quartulli ]

* Fixed redirection from HTTP to FTP.
* Added Travis-CI support.
* Added --no-clobber option.
* Added port to Host HTTP header when different from service default.
* Added option to choose between IPv4 and IPv6.
* Alternate-output: use better representation.
* Avoid bad-free when deallocating multiple URLs.
* Avoid segfault when quiet and alternate behaviour are both specified.
* Convert usleep to nanosleep.
* Fixed compilation without SSL.
* Fixed linking in macOS (don't link pthread).
* Ensure alternate output can be setup and prevent crash.
* Ensure 'progress' has space for null terminator.
* Fixed several memory leaks.
* Fixed a NULL dereference.
* Fixed use-after-free of axel->conn member.
* Implemented HTTP proxy authentication.
* Improved code in option parsing routine.
* Increased default number of max redirects to 20 and made it configurable.
* Made axel thread safe.
* Made SSL initialization race free.
* Fixed race segfault upon connection to HTTPS server.
* Fixed racy access to last_transfer.
* Added mention to IRC channel in README and CONTRIBUTING files.
* Reset 'enabled' attribute in conn_disconnect().
* Use boolean variables as such.
* Some minor fixes and changes.
* Fixed build warnings.

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Simplified http_header.
* Made HTTP the default protocol.
* Report truncated state file properly.
* Fixed linking against libintl in non-standard path.
* Improved http_auth_token to avoid buffering.
* Improved configuration parsing code.
* Build system improvements.
* Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
* Fixed several function prototypes.

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Added i18n for new messages.
* Updated general docs, as AUTHORS and ChangeLog files.
* Updated project homepage in all files.
* Updated the copyright notices in all headers.
* Updated the manpage.
* Updated the pt_BR translation.
* Updated the README.md file.
* Final tests, release and Debian packaging.

  [ Sumit Agrawal ]

* Added guard to header files.



Version 2.13.1, 2017-08-03

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Updated .po files.



Version 2.13, 2017-08-02

  [ David Polverari ]

* Fixed URI encoding implementation.

  [ Ismael Luceno ]

* Fixed NULL dereferences and buffer allocation
  (based on patch by: nemermollon <nemeralbano@hotmail.com>).
* Fixed size of string[] buffer in text.c.
* Implemented percent encoding/decoding primitives.
* Improved axel_message to work under memory pressure.
* Improved message_t queuing.
* Made axel_close more robust.
* Print messages instead of discarding them on axel_close.
* Fixed a couple of NULL derefs when OOM.
* Fixed various memory leaks and fd leaks.
* Code cleanup and simplification.

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Some updates in README file.
* Updated the translation for Brazilian Portuguese.
* Updated the manpage version and date.

  [ Stephen Thirlwall ]

* Set TLS hostname in ssl_connect.

  [ Vlad Glagolev ]

* Fixed '--with-openssl' flag in configure.ac file.



Version 2.12, 2016-12-25

  [ Denis Denisov ]

* Made some adjustments in README.md file.

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Little adjustment in Makefile.am.

  [ Lion Yang ]

* Updated the translation to ja.

  [ Mingcong Bai ]

* Updated and fixed translation to zh_CN.

  [ Phillip Berndt ]

* Added a feature to extract file sizes from the Content-Range header. This
  fix Axel downloading the file one byte short.

  [ Stephen Thirlwall ]

* Fixed 'rpl_malloc not found' when cross-compiling.
* Implemented a test on SSL_new rather than OPENSSL_init_ssl to avoid a fail
  to build from source.



Version 2.11, 2016-06-05

  [ Sjjad Hashemian ]

* Set SSL auto-retry mode. This fixes SSL WANT_READ error which causes
  'Connection gone' error sometimes.



Version 2.10, 2016-06-04

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Stephen implemented SSL/TLS. Consequently, the licensing for Axel from now on
  will be GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exception. All previous authors agree with that.
  For details, see https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/15.
* Downgraded gettext minimum version to 0.18 in configure.ac. It will produce a
  message 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P macro is deprecated' when building, but that is
  normal.
* Fixed some fuzzy translations.
* New code for autogen.sh, now with clean to vanish the source code.
* Updated manpage.

  [ Denis Denisov ]

* Implemented the reactivation of connections from state file, similar to
  dynamic segmentation.

  [ Osamu Aoki ]

*  Clarified the usage of multiple URLs in manpage.

  [ Sjjad Hashemian ]

* Specify filename from http header Content-Disposition (RFC 2616, Sec. 19.5.1).

  [ Stephen Thirlwall ]

* HTTPS/FTPS support using OpenSSL. \o/
* Implemented the --without-openssl option to build without SSL/TLS.
* Updated the manpage.



Version 2.7, 2016-05-01

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Added new architectures to configure.ac.
* Updated some points in configure.ac and Makefile.am.

  [ Mridul Malpotra ]

* Fixed num_connections error when invalid values are given.

  [ Stephen Thirlwall ]

* Add missing m4 path to configure.ac file.
* Added the autogen.sh script.
* Cleaned the source code, removing auto generated files.



Version 2.6, 2016-03-20

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]

* Added the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
* Moved all .c and .h to new /src directory.
* Moved all .po files to new /po directory.
* Moved some files to doc/ directory.
* Renamed README.to-contribute to CONTRIBUTING.md.
* Switched the build and install system to autotools.
* Updated all copyright notices.

  [ Ivan Gimenez ]

* Fix several compilation warnings.

  [ Stephen Thirlwall ]

* Alterate display expands to terminal width.



Version 2.5, 2015-11-01

  [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ] 2015-11-01

* Changed the homepage of the project in several files.
* axel.h: bumped to 2.5 version.
* configure:
    - Changed the default prefix to /usr.
    - Changed the default etc path to /etc.
    - Changed CFLAGS and LDFLAGS definition lines to allow external values,
* as GCC hardening sent by Debian.
* gui/: removed. The binary axel-kapt depended on kaptain that is no longer
*   available for QT5 (dead upstream development). For details, see
*   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789819
* http.c: fix a possible buffer overflow.
* Makefile: disabled the .po regeneration/merge actions to avoid changes in
    source code when building. I will try to fix it in future.
* manpage:
    - Moved to man/ directory.
    - Using txt2man to generate the manpage.
    - Updated the manpage.
    - Removed some typos.
    - Dropped the Chinese manpage (outdated now).
* README.md: added to be the main file for GitHub.
* README.to-contribute: added to explain how to contribute.

  [ Barry deFreese ] 2009-06-11

* Added Hurd (GNU) to configure file. It will allow Axel to build over
  GNU/Hurd. This change was provided by Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>,
  as a patch to Debian project, on 11 Jun 2009. For details, see
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532793

  [ Mark Smith ] 2010-07-03

* Added a support to IPv6. This change was provided by
  Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>,
  as a patch to Debian project, on 03 Jul 2010. For details, see
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525290

  [ unknown person ] 2010-08-19

* Fixed incorrect unit of time in download summary. For details see
  https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312669&group_id=100070&atid=413085

  [ unknown person ] 2011-04-12

*  Fixed an issue that produces a Bad HTTP Request when 302 redirected link is
   longer than 255 chars (like youtube). For details, see
   https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313080&group_id=100070&atid=413085

  [ Osamu Aoki ] 2012-03-10

* Added the translation to Japanese. See
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663286 and
  https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313565&group_id=100070&atid=413085
* Changed the configure file to honor the noopt when building. So, was removed
  the '-Os' option. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645271

  [ From original authors ]

* Releasing this old block (written after 2.4 and before 2.5 versions):

  - Make axel build on HP-UX, thanks Ciro Iriarte
  - Fix Solaris support (Closes: #312092), thanks Sebastian Kayser
  - Add PO-Revision-Date header to ru.po



Version 2.4

- Fix a buffer overflow caused by wrong size limits  when copying strings (Closes: #311569), thanks Michael Schwendt and the Fedora project members
- Fix thread hangups due to incorrect synchronization (Closes: #311469), thanks Yao Shi
- Removed Fedora packaging file. axel will be available in the Fedora repositories soon.
- Use /etc/ instead of /usr/etc/ as the default system-wide configuration location.
- Respect environment CFLAGS in configure.
- Allow special characters in arguments to configure.
- Add MimeType and fix Categories in the desktop file.



Version 2.3

- Wait for thread termination in axel.c:axel_do (Closes: #311255), thanks John Ripa
- New Chinese translation and manpage, thanks Shuge Lee
- Fix LFS support for FTP (Closes: #311320)
- Fix LFS support (Closes: #311324), thanks Rodrigue Le Bayon



Version 2.2:

- Fix a buffer overflow in http.c:http_encode.



Version 2.1:

- Fix version string.  2.0 still reported 1.1, thanks Ajay R Ramjatan
- Fix new MB/s display (was showing B/s).  Thanks Philipp Hagemeister



Version 2.0:

- Large file support thanks thanks David Turnbull
- Custom Header Support thanks Eli Yukelzon
- New Russian translation thanks newhren
- Fix segfault in -H option thanks Philipp Hagemeister
- Honour http_proxy and prefer it over HTTP_PROXY
- Add new RPM spec file thanks bbbush

Finished Sep 12 2008



Version 1.1:

- Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
- Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
- Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
- Always compile with -g, disable -O3
- Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
- Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
- Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
- Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
- Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses

Finished Jan 18 2008



Version 1.0b:
- Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
- Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
- Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
  axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
- Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
- Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)

Finished Apr 06 2005


Version 1.0a:
- gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
  (but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
  gstrip.
- Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
  code.
- Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
- Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
- Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
  connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
  connections when using Linux..
- Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
- HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
- Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
- Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.

Finished Feb 19 2002


Version 1.0:
- Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
  previous versions if there is no active connection.
- Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
- Created a new build system.
- install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
- Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
- Corrected a little problem in de.po.
- Thrown out the packaging stuff.

Finished Dec 6 2001


Version 0.99b brings you:
- Debian package bugfix.
- Restored i18n support.

Finished Nov 16 2001


Version 0.99a brings you:
- Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.

Finished Nov 10 2001


Version 0.99 brings you:
- Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
  so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
- Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
- Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
  to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
- Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
  now, Axel's RFC compliant.
- For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
  at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
  which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
  work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
- RPM package for axel-kapt added.

Finished Nov 9 2001


Version 0.98 brings you:
- Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
  did not affect the downloaded data.)
- For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
  code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
  this correctly now.
- Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
  after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
  handled correctly.
- Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
- 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
  corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
  work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
  more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
  keep it this way..
- Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.

Finished Nov 3 2001


Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
- Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
  it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
- All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
  for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
  disappear, by the way.
- HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
  using the HEAD request.
- conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
- Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
  proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
  already.
- Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
  Axel API.
- Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
- Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
  a proxy now.
- A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
  download from more than mirror at once.
- Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
  Also fixed by 0.96a.
- Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
- The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
  in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
- TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
  when still in ASCII mode.
- ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
  which is Not Good(tm).
- I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
- Tidied up the man-page a bit.
- Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
- Added axel-kapt interface.
- Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
  This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
  be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
  program will append the correct filename.
- Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
  for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
- Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
  release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
  Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...

Finished Oct 25 2001


Version 0.96 brings you:
- Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
  I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
  0.95.

Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)

And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.


Version 0.95 brings you:
- An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
  used to be unable to reconnect. :(
- Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
- Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
- SIZE command is really used now.
- Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
- Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
  them with the verbose-option.

Finished Aug 7 2001


Version 0.94 brings you:
- 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
- Added 'make uninstall' option.
- Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
- It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
- Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
- select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
  sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
  problem in a more 'useful' way.

Finished Jun 26 2001


Version 0.93 brings you:
- A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
  works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
  need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
- The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
  Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
- You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
- The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
  anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
  if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
  is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
- Local file existence check.
- Small bug fixed in conf.c.

Finished May 22 2001


Version 0.92 brings you:
- A credits file!! ;)
- A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
- ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
- Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
  can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
  hack, but it works.
- config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
- A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
  be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
  output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)

Finished May 11 2001


Version 0.91 brings you:
- A man page.
- A quiet mode.
- A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
  0.9 release..)
- Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
- Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
- No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
  bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
  replies.. :(
- HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
- Support for empty configuration strings.
- URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
  of the correct http://slashdot.org/)

Finished Apr 30 2001


Version 0.9 brings you:
- See the README for all the old features.
- Internationalization support.
- Clearer error messages.
- Probably some bug fixes too.
- A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)

Finished Apr 22 2001