** The `--timeout' option now affects DNS lookup and establishing the
connection as well. Previously it only affected reading and writing
-data.
+data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
+`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
+respectively.
** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
+
+** It is now possible to specify decimal values for --timeout, --wait,
+--waitretry, and --limit-rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now
+works as expected, and so does --limit-rate=2.5k.
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* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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