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+* Changes in Wget 1.9.
+
+** IPv6 is experimentally supported.
+
+** The `--timeout' option now affects the connect timeout as well.
+Previously it only affected reading and writing data.
+
+** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
+recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
+The ETA is still based on the average speed, though.
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+* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.8.
** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
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.
non-standard port.
** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
-<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>.
+<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
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