[svn] Introduce non-strict comment parsing.

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 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
 
-** The build process now requires Autoconf 2.5x.
-
 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
 requests.  For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
 send a POST request with the specified contents.
 
 ** IPv6 is experimentally supported.
 
-** The `--timeout' option now affects the connect timeout as well.
-Previously it only affected reading and writing data.
+** The `--timeout' option now affects DNS lookup and establishing the
+connection as well.  Previously it only affected reading and writing
+data.
 
 ** 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
@@ -29,6 +28,30 @@ log on to the proxy as "username@host".
 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
 considered a fatal error.
+
+** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from
+caching DNS lookups.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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".
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+* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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