AnInsomniacy/aria2-next v2.2.8

v2.2.8 - HTTP Transport Resilience and Documentation Cleanup

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Summary

Aria2 Next 2.2.8 improves HTTP download reliability for browser-forwarded requests, large ranged transfers, compressed metadata probes, and rate-limited mirrors. It also refreshes project documentation and GitHub issue intake around the current Aria2 Next branding and supported workflows.

Added

• HTTP/2 TLS negotiation support when the linked libcurl build supports it, while preserving HTTP/1.1 fallback behavior.
• Error-page detection for binary-looking downloads so small HTML login, verification, challenge, or confirmation pages are not silently saved as target files.
• Focused C++ regression coverage for adaptive HTTP rate-limit handling and compressed HEAD metadata probes.

Changed

• Browser-provided request context is now preserved more strictly in the libcurl path, including task-level User-Agent, Referer, cookies, forwarded headers, and Accept-Encoding behavior.
• HTTP metadata probes avoid trusting compressed HEAD Content-Length values and can fall back to Range probing for the real entity size.
• HTTP 429 and 503 responses now drive retry and adaptive concurrency behavior instead of aborting the whole task immediately.
• Documentation, support guidance, integration notes, and issue templates now use the Aria2 Next product name and current project scope.

Fixed

• Fixed downloads that could initialize storage with a bogus 20-byte length when servers returned compressed HEAD metadata for large binary files.
• Fixed ranged downloads against rate-limited mirrors by shrinking concurrency, respecting Retry-After when available, and retrying the affected segment.
• Fixed duplicate or conflicting libcurl request headers for task-level browser context forwarding.

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