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-* Changes in Wget 1.6-pre
+* Changes in Wget 1.7-dev
+
+** Wget now has a man page again (last version with one was 1.4.5). It is
+automatically generated if you have pod2man installed (comes with Perl 5).
+
+** 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 (SSL) URLs 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. Hrvoje still participates
-occasionally, and both are being helped by many other people.
+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:
projects / wget / blobdiff