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-* Changes in Wget 1.5.3+dev
+* Changes in Wget 1.7-dev
+
+** Wget can now recognize FTP directory listings from some non-Unix
+servers. Currently Windows NT is supported.
+
+** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
+puts you in some directory other than '/'.
+
+** "Keep-Alive" connections are now supported.
+
+** https URLs (SSL) are now supported if you link wget with OpenSSL.
+
+** 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
+skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
+also more general.
+
+** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
+
+** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
+where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
+large sites (thousands of documents).
+
+** Wget now mmaps the files it needs to read instead of allocating
+heap memory to read them.
+
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+* Changes in Wget 1.6
+
+** Administrative changes.
+
+*** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
+Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
+real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
+are being helped by many other people.
+
+*** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
+Take a look at:
+
+ http://sunsite.dk/wget/
+
+*** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
+sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
+the web page for downloading instructions.
** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
-** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict wget to
-following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval. -G /
---ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the opposite -- all tags but the ones
-you specify will be followed.
+** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
+Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
+retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
+opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
default in the system wgetrc.
-** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes wget to
-download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML page properly
-(e.g. inlined images).
+** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
+Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
+page properly (e.g. inlined images).
-** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes wget to append
-".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
+** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
+to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
+"\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
-** Polish and Russian message translation files have been added.
+** A number of new translation files have been added.
** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
bound to multiple IP addresses.
+
+** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
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* Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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