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aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds RFC 6249 Metalink/HTTP support. Current
implementation only uses rel=duplicate links. --enable-direct-io
option was deprecated because of performance issue. Since recent
GnuTLS uses libnettle as default instead of libgcrypt, this release
added initialization code for libgcrypt.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds --pause option which makes download paused state
immediately when added. If --save-session is used, aria2 will save
paused download with --pause option. aria2.getGlobalStat RPC method
was added. It returns global statistics such as overall download
speed. This release also fixes the bug that RPC request fails if it
is compressed. aria2 now won't save removed download in --save-session
text file. --file-allocation=falloc now works in MinGW32 build. This
only works with NTFS. Russian translation of man page and HTML manual
was added.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds the ability to handle metalink file which contains
relative URI in metalink:url and metalink:metaurl element. The
username and password specified in command-line are now masked with
"*" immediately after parsed, so that ps cannot show username and
password. In XML-RPC, aria2 now treats data without data type tag as
string. In MinGW32 build, cmd.exe is specified explicitly to run .bat
file.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that aria2 does not work on platforms which
have kqueue() system call due to invalid timeout parameter. The
--show-console-readout option was added. This option toggles the
appearance of console readout.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds JSON-RPC interface. The JSON-RPC and XML-RPC shares
same APIs. The JSON-RPC also supports JSONP. 2 new options were added:
--retry-wait and --async-dns-server. The downloads added by
aria2.addTorrent and aria2.addMetalink RPC method are now saved to the
file specified in --save-session option. The proxy options and related
environment variables now accept https:// and ftp:// scheme. This
release fixes the bug that causes segmentation fault when unpausing
downloads in some situations. MinGW32 build now looks for USERPROFILE
and the combination of HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH to get user's home
directory and doesn't check permission of .netrc file.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug which prevents from making directories on
Windows OS. It also fixes the bug that aria2 wrongly determines peer
as a seeder and drop connection in seed state. Some improvements and
bug fixes in BitTorrent implementation were made.... read more

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the compile error which occurs with --disable-nls
configure option. It also fixes the compile error which occurs when
the system does not have fallocate() but has posix_fallocate().

Please note that since 1.10.0 release, aria2 uses 1 connection per
host by default and has 20MiB segment size restriction. So whatever
value you specify using -s option, it uses 1 connection per host. To
make it behave like 1.9.x, use -x16 -k1M (see
--max-connection-per-server and --min-split-size option in man
page). If you specify multiple hosts, aria2 will use all of them and
open multiple connections.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that causes memory leak when parsing
Metalink document if aria2 is built with expat. It also add several
exit status codes to help identify the cause of error.
--max-connection-per-server option now works with Metalink. aria2 now
passes number of files and file path in addition to gid to command
specified in --on-download-* options. MinGW32 build now encodes
non-ASCII characters in file path using percent-encoding. With this
release, bash_completion file for aria2c is included in the
distribution. See doc/bash_completion directory in the archive.... read more

Source code repository is now at http://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/aria2
We no longer update Subversion repository at sourceforge.net.

We'll continue to use sourceforge.net as a project hosting site: the bug
tracker, wiki and forum are still hosted by sourceforge.net.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that downloading files larger than 4GB
fails on 32 bit systems. It also fixes the bug that dht.dat file is
not saved. The improper use of return value of vsnprintf was fixed,
which caused segmentation fault when formatting strings more than 1024
characters long.... read more

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that file allocation is enabled in HTTP
even if --file-allocation=none is specified.

Please note that since 1.10.0 release, aria2 uses 1 connection per
host by default and has 20MiB segment size restriction. So whatever
value you specify using -s option, it uses 1 connection per host. To
make it behave like 1.9.x, use -x16 -k1M (see
--max-connection-per-server and --min-split-size option in man
page). If you specify multiple hosts, aria2 will use all of them and
open multiple connections.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that aria2 hangs when FTP server does not
send '226 Transfer Complete' message and the bug that the time used in
file allocation is taken into account when calculating download speed.
Non UTF-8 filenames are now percent-encoded. The comments and name in
.torrent file in XML-RPC response are also percent-encoded if they are
not UTF-8. Compile error on OpenBSD4.7(i386) was fixed. A warning
message when CA certificates are not imported is not printed in
console. It is shown when certificate verification error is actually
occurred.... read more

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds short option -x for --max-connection-per-server
option and -k for --min-split-size option. It also adds
--max-download-result=NUM option. This option sets maximum number of
download result kept in memory and the default value is 1000.
--max-connection-per-server now accepts up to 16. '@' character is
now allowed in username embedded in URI. This release fixes the bug
that aria2 reports error and exits with non-zero status when file is
already downloaded and checksum is available.... read more

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that prevents HTTP redirect from working
when multiple files are downloaded from same host at the same time.
For netrc, aria2 now performs domain match if machine name defined in
.netrc starts with ".".

Please note that since 1.10.0 release, aria2 uses 1 connection per
host by default and has 20MiB segment size restriction. So whatever
value you specify using -s option, it uses 1 connection per host. To
make it behave like 1.9.x, use --max-connection-per-server=4
--min-split-size=1M. If you specify multiple hosts, aria2 will use
all of them and open multiple connections.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds IPv6 support for FTP, BitTorrent and BitTorrent DHT.
For FTP, EPSV and EPRT command support was added. Enabling IPv6 DHT
requires several options, so please check out the usage example in man
page or wiki usage example page. By default, the asynchronous DNS
resolver does not handle IPv6 address. To work with IPv6 address, use
--enable-async-dns6 option. aria2 now listens on both IPv4 and IPv6
socket for BitTorrent, its DHT and XML-RPC. aria2 uses same port for
both IPv4 and IPv6. The ability to add/remove BitTorrent tracker
announce URI was added. The link error for
FallocFileAllocationIterator was fixed.... read more

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds an option to limit the number of connections to the
same host in each download. aria2 now chooses server which is least
used in aria2c instance. This release also adds Chromium cookie
support and HTTP only conditional download support which is download
file only when the local file is older than remote file. aria2 now
can handle %2F in FTP URI properly. HTTP/1.1 chunked decoder was
fixed. For Linux, aria2 uses fallocate by default if it is usable.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that causes corrupted file. It also fixes
assertion error in DefaultPeerStorage class. Now aria2 doesn't reset
referer to "" on redirect. log and log-level option can be used
in aria2.changeGlobalOption XML-RPC method. This means you can
dynamically start or stop logging and change log file and log level.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that connection reuse on FTP does not work
if FTP server changes root directory based on account. It also fixes
the bug that reading Metalink document from pipe (-M- option) does not
work when aria2 is built with expat or old libxml2(2.7.6 or
earlier). Now aria2 does not emit error if given Metalink document is
empty(no file element). The response of aria2.tellStopped XML-RPC
method now has more information: totalLength, completedLength,
uploadLength, bitfield and so on.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that aria2 cuts filename after ';' if
filename in Content-Disposition header includes ';'. It also fixes
the bug that name attribute of file element in Metalink file is not
properly sanitized.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds kqueue, port_associate/port_getn and poll() support
for socket event notification to eliminate 1024 file descriptor
limitation of select() call. The bug that aria2.unpause and
aria2.unpauseAll XML-RPC method fail when -s1 is given in command-line
argument was fixed.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds the ability to save unfinished downloads as text
file. aria2 can read the file with -i option on restart. This
release also adds the ability to download file from scratch when aria2
sees resume is not supported by remote server. This feature is
disabled by default. See --always-resume option for
details. --no-proxy option accepts IPv4 network address with CIDR
block. aria2 now doesn't send "Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip" by
default. --http-accept-gzip option was added to toggle this behavior.
aria2 now treats lines starting "#" in -i list as comments. Several
XML-RPC methods were added: aria2.pause, aria2.unpause,
aria2.shutdown, and their families. The new exist status code '8' was
added. The bug that makes aria2 hang when system time changes while
aria2 is running was fixed on MinGW32, Mac OS X and the system which
has clock_gettime(). Several other bugs also have been fixed.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release adds Metalink4 support and BitTorrent Local Peer
Discovery. aria2.changeUri XML-RPC method was added. It enables you
to add/remove URIs to existing downloads dynamically. The user and
password for proxy server now can be specified in command-line
separately. We refactored the code based on profiler results, so
aria2 now runs more efficiently than ever. Russian and Simplified
Chinese translation were updated.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that --file-allocation=falloc doesn't work
with single file download. It also fixes the bug that the return value
of aria2 is unreliable if error occurs before download begins. When
custom request headers specified by --header option now override
built-in headers if they have same name.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that causes segmentation fault with
--max-file-not-found option involved. Now aria2 can handle redirected
URI which is not properly percent encoded. In MinGW32 build, console
readout is now always cut by 80 characters. 'bittorrent' key is added
to the response of tellStatus XML-RPC method. The associated value of
the key is a struct and contains data retrieved from .torrent file,
such as name, announce-list, comment, etc.

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross
platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports
HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

This release fixes the bug that causes segmentation fault if unknown
options exist in aria2.conf file and user cannot include empty line in
aria2.conf.

Following new command line options are added: --http-no-cache,
--bt-metadata-only and --human-readable option. --dir option now
treats "" as ".". --all-proxy, --http-proxy, --https-proxy and
--ftp-proxy option accept empty string "". When "" is given, it
erases previously defined proxy.... read more