GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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+Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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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.
+
+** 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
+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 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.
+\f
* 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:
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