+
+** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
+even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
+considered a fatal error.
+
+** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from
+caching DNS lookups.
+
+** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
+whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
+nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
+characters such as space. You can use the new option
+--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
+useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
+non-native partitions.
+
+** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
+users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
+declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
+Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
+
+** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
+as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
+
+** 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 timeouts, waiting
+periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
+expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
+\f
+* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.