diff --git a/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt b/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt
+++ b/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt
@@ -740,6 +740,44 @@
 The last atom in the frame SHOULD end with a newline (``\n``). If it
 doesn't, clients MAY add a newline to facilitate immediate printing.
 
+Progress Update (``0x07``)
+--------------------------
+
+This frame holds the progress of an operation on the peer. Consumption
+of these frames allows clients to display progress bars, estimated
+completion times, etc.
+
+Each frame defines the progress of a single operation on the peer. The
+payload consists of a CBOR map with the following bytestring keys:
+
+topic
+   Topic name (string)
+pos
+   Current numeric position within the topic (integer)
+total
+   Total/end numeric position of this topic (unsigned integer)
+label (optional)
+   Unit label (string)
+item (optional)
+   Item name (string)
+
+Progress state is created when a frame is received referencing a
+*topic* that isn't currently tracked. Progress tracking for that
+*topic* is finished when a frame is received reporting the current
+position of that topic as ``-1``.
+
+Multiple *topics* may be active at any given time.
+
+Rendering of progress information is not mandated or governed by this
+specification: implementations MAY render progress information however
+they see fit, including not at all.
+
+The string data describing the topic SHOULD be static strings to
+facilitate receivers localizing that string data. The emitter
+MUST normalize all string data to valid UTF-8 and receivers SHOULD
+validate that received data conforms to UTF-8. The topic name
+SHOULD be ASCII.
+
 Stream Encoding Settings (``0x08``)
 -----------------------------------
 
diff --git a/mercurial/wireprotoframing.py b/mercurial/wireprotoframing.py
--- a/mercurial/wireprotoframing.py
+++ b/mercurial/wireprotoframing.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 FRAME_TYPE_BYTES_RESPONSE = 0x04
 FRAME_TYPE_ERROR_RESPONSE = 0x05
 FRAME_TYPE_TEXT_OUTPUT = 0x06
+FRAME_TYPE_PROGRESS = 0x07
 FRAME_TYPE_STREAM_SETTINGS = 0x08
 
 FRAME_TYPES = {
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@
     b'bytes-response': FRAME_TYPE_BYTES_RESPONSE,
     b'error-response': FRAME_TYPE_ERROR_RESPONSE,
     b'text-output': FRAME_TYPE_TEXT_OUTPUT,
+    b'progress': FRAME_TYPE_PROGRESS,
     b'stream-settings': FRAME_TYPE_STREAM_SETTINGS,
 }
 
@@ -108,6 +110,7 @@
     FRAME_TYPE_BYTES_RESPONSE: FLAGS_BYTES_RESPONSE,
     FRAME_TYPE_ERROR_RESPONSE: FLAGS_ERROR_RESPONSE,
     FRAME_TYPE_TEXT_OUTPUT: {},
+    FRAME_TYPE_PROGRESS: {},
     FRAME_TYPE_STREAM_SETTINGS: {},
 }