[axel-devel] Announcing Axel 1.1 maintenance release

Y Giridhar Appaji Nag giridhar at appaji.net
Fri Jan 18 10:53:03 UTC 2008


Hi,

Axel 1.1 is released.  This is a maintenance release that fixes a bunch
of important bugs and has a couple of minor enhancements.

Please visit <http://axel.alioth.debian.org/> to download it.

A full list of changes follows:

- 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
- 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
- Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
- Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons

Giridhar

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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/
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