Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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-* Changes in Wget 1.7-dev
+* Changes in Wget 1.8.
-** Wget can now recognize FTP directory listings from some non-Unix
-servers. Currently Windows NT is supported.
+** A new progress indicator is now available. Try it with
+--progress=bar or using `progress = bar' in `.wgetrc'.
+
+** "Recursive retrieval" has been revamped:
+
+*** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
+calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
+downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
+before.
+
+*** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
+This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
+have been downloaded.
+
+*** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
+already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
+conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
+
+** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
+non-standard port.
+
+** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
+<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>.
+
+** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
+quoting bug. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F'
+is no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
+which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
+\f
+* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.7.
+
+** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
+use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
+installed.
+
+** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
+server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
+and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
+
+** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
+Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
+many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
+stressing for the server and the network.
+
+** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
+servers.
** 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.
+** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
+example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
+expect.
** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
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.
-
+** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
+documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
+1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
+distribution installed on your system.
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* Changes in Wget 1.6
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