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 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 
+* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+
 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
 
 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;