curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.24.0

 Public curl releases:         127
 Command line options:         149
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   192
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       39
 Contributors:                 907

This release includes the following changes:

 o CURLOPT_QUOTE: SFTP supports the '*'-prefix now [24]
 o CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS: set name servers if possible [23]
 o Add support for using nettle instead of gcrypt as gnutls backend [22]
 o CURLOPT_INTERFACE: avoid resolving interfaces names with magic prefixes [21]

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o SSL session share: move the age counter to the share object [1]
 o -J -O: use -O name if no Content-Disposition header comes! [2]
 o protocol_connect: show verbose connect and set connect time [3]
 o query-part: ignore the URI part for given protocols [4]
 o gnutls: only translate winsock errors for old versions [5]
 o POP3: fix end of body detection [6]
 o POP3: detect when LIST returns no mails
 o TELNET: improved treatment of options [7]
 o configure: add support for pkg-config detection of libidn [8]
 o CyaSSL 2.0+ library initialization adjustment [9]
 o multi interface: only use non-NULL socker function pointer
 o call opensocket callback properly for active FTP
 o don't call close socket callback for sockets created with accept() [10]
 o differentiate better between host/proxy errors [11]
 o SSH: fix CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 and --hostpubmd5 [12]
 o multi: handle timeouts on DNS servers by checking for new sockets [13]
 o CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS: fix return code
 o POP3: fixed escaped dot not being stripped out [14]
 o OpenSSL: check for the SSLv2 function in configure [15]
 o MakefileBuild: fix the static build [16]
 o create_conn: don't switch to HTTP protocol if tunneling is enabled [17]
 o multi interface: fix block when CONNECT_ONLY option is used [18]
 o Fix connection reuse for TLS upgraded connections [19]
 o multiple file upload with -F and custom type [20]

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

 Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon, Jason Glasgow, Jonas Schnelli, Mark Brand,
 Martin Storsjo, Yang Tse, Laurent Rabret, Jason Glasgow, Steve Holme,
 Reza Arbab, Jason Liu, Gokhan Sengun, Rob Ward, Dan Fandrich,
 Naveen Chandran, Ward Willats, Vladimir Grishchenko, Colin Hogben,
 Alessandro Ghedini

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

References to bug reports and discussions on issues:

 [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0116.html
 [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2011-11/0030.htm
 [3] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2011-11/0035.html
 [4] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0218.html
 [5] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0267.html
 [6] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0279.html
 [7] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0247.html
 [8] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0294.html
 [9] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3442068
 [10] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-12/0018.html
 [11] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2011-12/0010.html
 [12] = http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3451592
 [13] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0371.html
 [14] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0368.html
 [15] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2011-12/0012.html
 [16] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-12/0063.html
 [17] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-12/0010.html
 [18] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-12/0070.html
 [19] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0022.html
 [20] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-12/0121.html
 [21] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-12/0107.html
 [22] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0164.html
 [23] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0067.html
 [24] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-11/0205.html