- 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 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)
+ to alternate servers if servers fail in mid-download. It allows
+ seeking to arbitrary locations in the file, unlike the old
+ downloader which 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)
- 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)