Updated for 1.9.1 release

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aria2 1.9.1
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Release Note
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This release adds the ability to download file 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. --remove-control-file
option is added to remove control file before download begins. 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.shutdown and aria2.forceShutdown. The new
exist status code '8' was added. Several bugs also have been fixed.
Changes
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* Fixed the bug that web-seed URI is not percent-encoded.
* Added aria2.shutdown and aria2.forceShutdown XML-RPC method. These
methods, as their name imply, shutdown aria2. These methods are
useful for Windows because it lacks signal mechanism.
* Don't send "Accept-Encoding: default, gzip" by default. This is
because some servers respond with "Content-Encoding: gzip" for a
file which itself is gzipped file and aria2 inflates them. This is
a problem if user doesn't want to inflate the file. Apparently this
is server configuration error, but we cannot do anything about
this. So we turned this off. Added --http-accept-gzip option. If
true is given to this option, aria2 sends "Accept-Encoding:
deflate, gzip" request header and inflates response if remote
server responds with "Content-Encoding: gzip" or "Content-Encoding:
deflate". We removed extension "tgz" hack in order not to inflate
files with tgz extensions.
* Made aria2 not send
"application/metalink4+xml,application/metalink+xml" in Accept
header for web-seeding URIs and tracker request.
* Added --dht-message-timeout option.
* Added --bt-tracker-connect-timeout and --bt-tracker-timeout
option.
* Documented that specifying --seed-time=0 disables seeding after
download completed.
* Drop connection if same Peer ID has been already seen.
* Fixed the bug that waiting download unintentionally starts when
URIs are added to it using aria2.changeUri XML-RPC method.
* Fixed compile error with g++-4.4 on FreeBSD.
* Fixed the bug that URIs added using aria2.changeUri XML-RPC method
are not used immediately if there is no URI remaining before
calling aria2.changeUri and the number of connection is less than
the value in -s(or -C for Metalink downloads).
* Added --always-resume and --max-resume-failure-tries option. If
--always-resume=false is given, when all given URIs do not
support resume or aria2 encounters N URIs which does not support
resume (N is the value specified using --max-resume-failure-tries
option), aria2 downloads file from scratch. The default behavior is
--always-resume=true, which means if all URIs do not support
resume, download fails. I think this is OK because user normally
doesn't like to see that partially downloaded file is
overwritten(this is particularly true if file size is big). This
option is useful when aria2 is used as a download backend and
graceful falling back to overwritten behavior is preferable. Added
exit status value 8, which means download failed because server did
not support resume.
* Added --remove-control-file option. This option removes control
file(*.aria2 file) before download. Using with
--allow-overwrite=true, download always starts from scratch. This
will be useful for users behind proxy server which disables
resume. For such proxy user, -C1 is also recommended for Metalink
downloads to avoid establishing unnecessary connections.
* Added v key in DHT message. aria2's DHT version is independent of
the package version and we defined it as 1 at the moment. It is
defined as DHT_VERSION in src/DHTConstants.h. aria2's DHT version
scheme is "A2"+2bytes DHT version number in network byte order.
* Fixed the bug that value of numSeeders in aria2.tellStatus XML-RPC
method response is integer, while it should be string. The man
page says it is string. When peer's port is not listening port,
set '0' to port in aria2.getPeers response.
* Lines starting "#" in -i list are treated as comments.
* Accept IPv4 network address with CIDR block in --no-proxy option
and no_proxy environment variable. Current implementation does not
resolve hostname in URI to compare network address. So it is only
effecive if URI has numeric IP address.
aria2 1.9.0
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