** 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.
-The ETA is still based on the average speed, though.
+The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from
caching DNS lookups.
-** The build process now requires Autoconf 2.5x.
+** 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.
-** Wget no longer quotes characters in local file names that would be
-considered "unsafe" as part of URL. Quoting can still occur for
-control characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent characters
-such as space. You can use the new option --restrict-file-names to
-enforce even stricter rules, which is useful when downloading to
-Windows 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 --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.
\f