diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fcaa2520..5357ba42 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ have been downloaded. already resolves when resolving handling URLs, link conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string. +** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other +addresses when accessing the first one fails. + ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a non-standard port. @@ -40,8 +43,8 @@ non-standard port. . ** 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 +quoting. 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.