New Features

• TCP Fast Open support on Linux
• Fixed building against Bionic libc (Android)

Other Changes

• TCP code cleanup
• Removed dependency on libm
• Build system fixes and improvements
• All translations updated
• Updatea to the documentation

Bug Fixes

• Data types and format string cleanup
• String handling cleanup (fixed potential overflows)

Bugfixes

• 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)

Other Changes

• Builds now use canonical host triplet instead of uname -s
• Updated build instructions
• Code cleanup

Bug fixes

• Fixed HTTP request-ranges to be zero-based (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/206)
• Fixed typo "too may" -> "too many"
• Replace malloc + memset calls with calloc
• Sanitize progress bar buffer len passed to memset (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/pull/207)

Bug fixes

• Fixed comparison error in axel_divide (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/205)
• Make sure maxconns is at least 1 (to avoid divide-by-zero errors)

New features

• Updated all translations
• Updated build documentation
• Added support for parsing IPv6 literal hostnames (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/169)

Bug fixes

• Fixed composition of URLs in redirections (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/144)
• Fixed request range calculation (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/187)
• 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 (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/194)
  • Integers for speed ratio and delay calculation
• Fixed filename extraction from URL
• Fixed request-target message to proxy
• Handle secure protocol's schema even with SSL disabled (https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/158)
• Fixed Content-Disposition filename value decoding
• Strip leading hyphens in extracted filenames

Bugfix release

• Fixed building against static OpenSSL

• Buildsystem fixes and improvements
• Fixed bug that produces empty files with -q/--quiet
• Fixed formatting of the version/copyright message
• Header files reorganization
• Style fixes

Translations:

• Spanish translation
• Updated Portuguese translation

From now on, release tarballs will be available, which include the buildsystem so you don't depend on autotools.

This release includes many important bug fixes, including fixes to security issues. Specially important for distributions is that now the builds should be reproducible (please report any bugs).

See the ChangeLog for details.

Translations:

• Italian
• Indonesian
• Improvements to Simplified Chinese

• Fix to avoid stall due to missing unlock.

• Added --no-clobber option.
• Allow user to choose between IPv4 and IPv6.
• Implemented HTTP proxy authentication.
• Several fixes and improvements (see the ChangeLog file).