From 481b0d75c4c44413f9068bbf42e2df8c2ba25ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko@zooko.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:13:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: NEWS: more detail about new-downloader --- NEWS | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a67c1eca..da6f5ea7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ - A completely new downloader which improves performance and robustness of immutable-file downloads. It automatically fails over - to alternate servers if the ones it is using fail in mid-download. - It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and unnecessary bytes - transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, #990) + to alternate servers if the ones it is using fail in + mid-download. It allows seeking to arbitrary locations in the file, + where the old downloader only allowed reading the entire file + sequentially from the beginning. It also minimizes unnecessary + round trips and unnecessary bytes transferred to improve + performance. (#287, #288, #798, #800, #990, #1160, #1162) - Non-ASCII command-line arguments and non-ASCII outputs now work on Windows. In addition, the command-line tool now works on 64-bit Windows. (#1074) -- 2.45.2