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Curl and libcurl 7.10.8 is out! A bugfix release.
This release includes the following changes:
o IPv6 is now supported on Windows builds too
o CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE lets you select pure IPv6 or IPv4 resolved addresses
2003-09-23 13:42:43 +02:00
(curl offers the command line options -4/--ipv4 and -6/--ipv6)
o GSS-Negotiate works fine with the MIT kerberos library
2003-09-23 13:42:43 +02:00
o SPNEGO support added, if libcurl is built with the FBopenssl libraries,
curl_version_info() can return a feature bit for it and curl -V displays
SPNEGO as a feature if libcurl is built with it enabled.
o easy handles added to a multi handle now share DNS cache automaticly
o CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_AVAIL and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_AVAIL were added
o CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT was added
o NTLM, Digest and GSS-Negotiate authentications should work even for HTTPS
over proxies
o curl supports multiple -T flags to allow serveral uploaded files using
a single command line
o CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE can return the last FTP response code
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o improved performance when used multi-threaded on windows
o share-locking during DNS lookups was modified
2003-10-09 22:12:16 +02:00
o resume was not possible to switch off properly once enabled
o fixed the ipv4 connect code when a DNS entry has multiple IPs
o now checks subjectAltNames when matching certs
2003-10-07 16:42:02 +02:00
o HTTP POST using read callback works again
2003-10-05 17:16:18 +02:00
o builds fine on BeOS now
o CURLOPT_COOKIE set to NULL no longer sends the previously set cookie
2003-10-04 17:28:23 +02:00
o if an FTP transfer used a bad path, the next transfer could fail too
2003-10-04 16:53:19 +02:00
o ares-built libcurl resolves IP-only names properly
2003-10-03 15:19:52 +02:00
o changed the curl_lock_function proto to prevent warnings on some compilers
o builds fine on QNX 6.2.x now
o PUT with --digest works now
o --anyauth that picks NTLM and then follows a redirect (and does NTLM again)
works now
o asynch resolves now work on NT4 too
o a DNS cache trash (possible segfault) was fixed
o runtests.pl clears all proxy environment variables before the test is run
o Microsoft's "Negotiate" authentication is now supported by the existing
GSSNEGOTIATE option.
o A set zero-length proxy name confused libcurl
o Digest authentication works again without OpenSSL on 64bit architectures
o configure --enable-thread works now
o buffer problems in the test suite's web server were fixed
o improved proxy password handling
o LDAP is again working nicely with the current OpenLDAP
o asynch name lookup for non-resolving hosts now return a proper error message
o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1 no longer aborts if no CN field is
obtainable, it will merely warn about it.
o name resolve segfault with uClibc fixed
o multi interface and multi-part/formpost could end in segfault
o curl_multi_info_read() sets the msgs_in_queue to 0 when returning NULL
o multi interface, ares and non-resolving host caused a segfault
o minor single SSL memory leak fixed
o Setting CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or CURLOPT_READFUNCTION to NULL resets them
to default.
Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
o TclCurl 0.10.7 was released.
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Loren Kirkby, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Antoine Calando, Gerd v. Egidy, Vincent
Sanders, John McGowan, Henrik Storner, J<>rg Mueller-Tolk, Peter Pentchev,
2003-10-03 15:19:52 +02:00
Early Ehlinger, Kevin Fisk, Jurij Smakov, Bjorn Reese, Tim Bartley, David
Kimdon, Dominick Meglio, Markus Moeller, Giuseppe Attardi, James MacMillan,
2003-10-05 17:16:18 +02:00
Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Jon Turner, Vincent Bronner, Shard,
2003-10-09 22:12:16 +02:00
Jeremy Friesner, Florian Schoppmann, Neil Dunbar, Frank Ticheler, Lachlan
O'Dea, Dirk Manske, Domenico Andreoli, Gisle Vanem, Kimmo Kinnunen, Andrew
Fuller
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)