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 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 
+* 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.
+
 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
 
 * Changes in Wget 1.7.