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+* Changes in Wget 1.8.
+
+** A new progress indicator is now available. Try it with
+--progress=bar or using `progress = bar' in `.wgetrc'.
+
+** 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.
-** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported. This
-means that multiple requests from the same hosts are now much faster.
+** 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 '/'.
+** 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
are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
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