Axel Changelog

What's new in Axel 2.4

Apr 28, 2009
  • Fix a buffer overflow caused by wrong size limits when copying strings (Closes: #311569), thanks Michael Schwendt and the Fedora project members
  • Fix thread hangups due to incorrect synchronization (Closes: #311469), thanks Yao Shi
  • Removed Fedora packaging file. axel will be available in the Fedora repositories soon.
  • Use /etc/ instead of /usr/etc/ as the default system-wide configuration location.
  • Respect environment CFLAGS in configure.
  • Allow special characters in arguments to configure.
  • Add MimeType and fix Categories in the desktop file.

New in Axel 1.0b (Apr 28, 2009)

  • Security fix