curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.16.5

 Public curl release number:               101
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 127
 Available command line options:           118
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     143
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        39
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         35
 Number of contributors:                   572

This release includes the following changes:
 
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This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o test cases 31, 46, 61, 506, 517 now work in time zones that use leap seconds
 o problem with closed proxy connection during HTTP CONNECT auth negotiation
 o transfer-encoding skipping didn't ignore the 407 response bodies properly
 o CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST set to 1
 o CONNECT endless loop
 o krb5 support builds with Heimdal
 o added returned error string for connection refused case
 o re-use of dead FTP control connections
 o login to FTP servers that don't require (nor understand) PASS after the
   USER command
 o bad free of memory from libssh2
 o the SFTP PWD command works
 o HTTP Digest auth on a re-used connection

This release includes the following known bugs:

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

Other curl-related news:

 o pycurl 7.16.4 was released http://pycurl.sf.net
 o TclCurl 7.16.4 was released
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/

New curl mirrors:

 o http://curl.freeby.pctools.cl is a new mirror in Chile

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

 Dan Fandrich, Song Ma, Daniel Black, Giancarlo Formicuccia, Shmulik Regev,
 Daniel Cater, Colin Hogben, Jofell Gallardo, Daniel Johnson,
 Ralf S. Engelschall, James Housley, Chris Flerackers
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)