GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements
GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 21 September 2026 at 07:26 AM EDT. Add A Comment GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents. One of the user visible changes of Wget 2.3 is now supporting --progress=dot for those preferring a text-based dot-styled display as an alternative to the default thermometer bar style display.
- ▪GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 21 September 2026 at 07:26 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents.
- ▪One of the user visible changes of Wget 2.3 is now supporting --progress=dot for those preferring a text-based dot-styled display as an alternative to the default thermometer bar style display.
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| Original publisher | Phoronix |
| Canonical URL | https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Wget-2.3-Released |
| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:26:18 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-21T11:33:47.878Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-21T11:33:47.878Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 7BI86-137qBe · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 21 September 2026 at 07:26 AM EDT. Add A Comment GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents. One of the user visible changes of Wget 2.3 is now supporting --progress=dot for those preferring a text-based dot-styled display as an alternative to the default thermometer bar style display. Wget 2.3 also improved its build system and configuration process as well as refining the project's documentation.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Phoronix.