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+* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.8.
+
+** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
+You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
+types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
+dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
+indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
+
+** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
+`--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
+tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
+per second.
+
+** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
+
+*** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
+calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
+downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
+before.
+
+*** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
+This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
+have been downloaded.
+
+*** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
+already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
+conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
+
+*** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
+same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
+are now converted correctly.
+
+*** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
+retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
+to display the page.
+
+*** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
+`wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
+and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
+
+** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
+base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
+relative.
+
+** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
+addresses when accessing the first one fails.
+
+** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
+non-standard port.
+
+** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
+<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
+
+** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
+quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
+no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
+which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
+
+** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
+\f
+* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
* Changes in Wget 1.7.
** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
installed.
-** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported. This
-means that multiple requests from the same hosts are now much faster.
+** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
+server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
+and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
+
+** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
+Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
+many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
+stressing for the server and the network.
** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
servers.
** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
puts you in some directory other than '/'.
+** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
+example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
+expect.
+
** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
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