Re: wget-1.21.4 released [stable]

[Tim Rühsen]

Darshit, thank you for taking the time to publish a new release !

Regards, Tim

On 5/11/23 03:29, Darshit Shah wrote:
> This is to announce wget-1.21.4, a stable release.
>
> This is a slow release, with not many exciting things to talk about. The main 
> reason is to allow HSTS tests to function again on i686 systems.
>
> There have been 29 commits by 3 people in the 62 weeks since 1.21.3.
>
> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
> The following people contributed changes to this release:
>
>    Darshit Shah (6)
>    Tim Rühsen (22)
>    jinfuchiang (1)
>
> Darshit
>   [on behalf of the wget maintainers]
> ==================================================================
>
> Here is the GNU wget home page:
>      http://gnu.org/s/wget/
>
> For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
>    http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=wget.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.21.4
> or run this command from a git-cloned wget directory:
>    git shortlog v1.21.3..v1.21.4
>
> Here are the compressed sources:
>    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.gz   (4.9MB)
>    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz   (2.4MB)
>
> Here are the GPG detached signatures:
>    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.gz.sig
>    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.21.4.tar.lz.sig
>
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>    https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
> Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
>
>    c6dc52cbda882c14fa5c3401d039901a0ba823fc  wget-1.21.4.tar.gz
>    gVQvXO+4+qzDm7vGyC3tgOPkqIUFrnLqUd8nUlvN4Ew=  wget-1.21.4.tar.gz
>    42384273c1937458c9db3766a5509afa636a2f00  wget-1.21.4.tar.lz
>    NoNhml9Q7cvMsXIKeQBvo3v5uaJVqMW0gEi8PHqHS9k=  wget-1.21.4.tar.lz
>
> Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
> from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
>
> Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>
>    gpg --verify wget-1.21.4.tar.gz.sig
>
> The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
>
>    pub   rsa4096 2015-10-14 [SC]
>          7845 120B 07CB D8D6 ECE5  FF2B 2A17 43ED A91A 35B6
>    uid   Darshit Shah <gpg@darnir.net>
>    uid   Darshit Shah <darnir@gnu.org>
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
> or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
>    gpg --locate-external-key gpg@darnir.net
>
>    gpg --recv-keys 64FF90AAE8C70AF9
>
>    wget -q -O- 
> 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=wget&download=1' | 
> gpg --import -
>
> As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
> keyring:
>
>    wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
>    gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify wget-1.21.4.tar.gz.sig
>
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>    Autoconf 2.71
>    Automake 1.16.5
>    Gnulib v0.1-6178-gdfdf33a466
>
> NEWS
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 1.21.4 (2023-05-11)
>
> ** Document --retry-on-host-error in help text
>
> ** Increase read buffer size to 64k. This should speed up downloads on gigabit 
> and faster connections
>
> ** Update deprecated option '--html-extension' to '--adjust-extension' in 
> documentation
>
> ** Update gnulib compatibility layer.
>     Fixes HSTS test failures on i686. (Thanks to Andreas Enge for ponting it 
> out)

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