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* Changes in Wget 1.8.
-** A new progress indicator is now available. Try it with
---progress=bar or using `progress = bar' in `.wgetrc'.
+** 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 bandwidth spent by 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" has been revamped: