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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'.
+** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
+You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'.  Two
+types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
+dotted indicator).  You can permanently revert to the old progress
+indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
+
+** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
+`--limit-rate' option.  For example, "wget --limit-rate=15k URL" will
+tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
+per second.
+
+** "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'