LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed URL validator.
Announced this weekend LinkChecker 6.4 is now available.
Listed Features include recursive and multithreaded checking, output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats, HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support, restriction of link checking with regular expression filters for URLs, proxy support, username/password authorization for HTTP and FTP and Telnet, honors robots.txt exclusion protocol, Cookie support, HTML and CSS syntax check, antivirus check, different interfaces: command line, GUI and web interface and more.
More options and usage information about LinkChecker can be found in the documentation and changelog.