Version 2.17.14

Version: 2.17.14, 2024-04-07

Bug Fixes

• Remove inclusion of <stdatomic.h>
• configure: Fix handling of --with-ssl=yes
• conn: Fix potential buffer overrun
• http: Fix filename parsing from Content-Disposition

Other Changes

• configure: Force C89-compliant return type of signal handlers
• configure: Update to autoconf 2.72

Version 2.17.13

Bug Fixes

• configure: Fix handling of --with-ssl

Other Changes

• abuf: Fix realloc usage
• random: Initialize fd at startup

Version 2.17.12

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a potential int overflow
• Fixed speed-limiting sleep delay overflow

Other Changes

• Implemented early redirect loop detection
• Added wolfSSL support
• Buildsystem improvements
• Simplified configuration support code
• Removed HTTP encoding of URLs on the CLI, should be pre-encoded

Translations

• Fixed a wrong translation for Turkish
• Added Georgian translation

Version 2.17.11

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a deadlock in conn_info
• Fixed build on FreeBSD (workaround for hidden typedefs)

Other Changes

• 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
• Implemented percentage output mode for piping
• Fixed typos

Translations

• Added Turkish Translation

Version 2.17.10

Bug fixes

• Potential NULL pointer dereference
• Fixed incrementig procedure for delay_time
• Fixed speed limiting

Other Changes

• Portability improvements
  • Made the stop signal handler portable
• Build system improvements
  • Now you can specify where OpenSSL is installed
  • Fixed MinGW detection
  • Further improved code portability
• 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
• 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

Translations

• Fixed typos and warnings in Simplified Chinese translation
• Updates and fixes to:
  • Dutch
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
• Blind updates (review needed) to:
  • Indonesian
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese

Version 2.17.9

Bug Fixes

• Fixed insecure mode certificate checking error.
• Fixed progress bar for large number of connections.
• Fixed some race conditions with conn_t.
• Removed limitations on state file name length.
• Removed limitations on HTTP query length.
• Fixed a memory leak when deleting the download state file.

Other Changes

• Added coding style aid and licensing rules to CONTRIBUTING.md.
• Updated and improved README.md.
• Cleanup of code & build system.
• Made the help flag report axel's version number.

Translations

• Updated Chinese translation.

Version 2.17.8

Bug Fixes

• Added SSL Hostname verification
• Fixed parsing of Content-Disposition HTTP header
• Check if custom headers fit into add_header
• Fixed User-Agent HTTP header never being included

Other Changes

• Code cleanup, documentation, and build system improvements
• Replaced progress bar line clearing with terminal control sequence
• Updated translations: German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

Version 2.17.7

Bug Fixes

• Fixed HTTP Basic Authentication header generation
• Fixed release dates for manual pages when packaging a release from BSD systems
• Partially fixed Travis-CI Mac OS X builds
• Fixed fd leak of SSL connections
• Fixed configure error message on missing header files

Other Changes

• Select progress indicator depending on if the output is a terminal.
• Updated README.md

Version 2.17.6

Bug Fixes

• Fixed manpage build reproducibility issue
• Fixed handling of non-recoverable HTTP errors

Other changes

• Cleanup of connection setup code

Version 2.17.5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed progress indicator (broken in 2.17.4)