curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.16.3

 Public curl release number:               99
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 126
 Available command line options:           118
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     141
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    54
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        38
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         35
 Number of contributors:                   554

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o added curl_multi_socket_action()
 o deprecated curl_multi_socket()
 o uses less memory in non-pipelined use cases

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o if2up too long interface name memory leak
 o test case 534 started to fail 2007-04-13 due to the existance of a
   new host on the net with the same silly domain the test was using
   for a host which was supposed not to exist.
 o test suite SSL certificate works better with newer stunnel
 o internal progress meter update frequency back to once per second
 o avoid some unnecessary calls to function gettimeofday
 o a double-free in the SSL-layer
 o GnuTLS free of NULL credentials
 o NSS-fix for closing down SSL
 o bad warning from configure when gnutls was selected
 o compilation on VMS 64-bit mode

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 7.16.2.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
 o TclCurl 7.16.2 was released:
   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/

New curl mirrors:

 o http://curl.spegulo.be is a new mirror in Belgium
 o http://curl.piotrkosoft.net is a new mirror in Poland
 o http://curl.smudge-it.net is a new mirror in St Louis, MO, USA

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

 Song Ma, Dan Fandrich, Yang Tse, Jay Austin, Robert Iakobashvil,
 James Housley, Daniel Black, Steve Little, Sonia Subramanian

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