Despite it's minimalist nature, gutenfetch has some very attractive features and more being added when time and inclinnation allow it.

gutenfetch 1.5

• Moved much functionality into libgutenfetch.
• Added support for long options.
• Cleaned up some potential memory overflows.
• Fixed bug where manual selection of server doesn't get saved in config file.
• Fixed bug where different output was given if the order of command line options is changed.
• Added support for caching to disk.
• Removed support for downloading .ZIP files. It will be back in 2.0 :)
• Updated manual page.

gutenfetch 1.4

• Added support for unzipping imploded etexts.
• Better support for compiling and running under windows.
• Provide our own regex functions if they are not native.
• Provide our own mergesort if it is not native.
• Provide our own strsep if it is not native.
• Removed BSD4.4 specific fpurge it should now compile with ease under Linux.
• Should now compile against older versions of libcurl which don't provide CURLOPT_WRITEDATA.
• Cleaner UI.
• A number of small bug fixes and new bugs introduced ;)

gutenfetch 1.3

• Updated server list 11/03/03.
• Manually recreate config file with -m flag.
• Added support for long options like '--verbose' and '--make-config'.
• ~/.gutenfetchrc can now contain configuration options. Allows tuning the behavior of gutenfetch without adding many command line options.
• You can optionally filter search results to remove lines which are not referring to an ebook.
• Supports .ZIP files internally if libz is present, no need for unzip or funzip to be installed on the machine.
• Makes no use of temporary files, all operations occur in memory.
• Makes no use of external applications, got rid of all fork/exec stuff.
• Improved visual user interface and feedback.
• Support for NLS through gettext().
• Removes MS-DOS '^M' character from electronic texts.
• All networking support is provided through CURL.
• Support for proxy servers.
• Supports FTP and HTTP
• Supports server authentication.