curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.19.5

 Public curl releases:         111
 Command line options:         132
 curl_easy_setopt() options:   163
 Public functions in libcurl:  58
 Known libcurl bindings:       38
 Contributors:                 715

This release includes the following changes:

 o libcurl now closes all dead connections whenever you attempt to open a new
   connection
 o libssh2's version number can now be figured out run-time instead of using
   the build-time fixed number
 o CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION may now return CURL_SEEKFUNC_CANTSEEK
 o curl can now upload with resume even when reading from a pipe
 o a build-time configured curl_socklen_t is now used instead of socklen_t

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o NTLM authentication memory leak on SSPI enabled Windows builds
 o fixed the GnuTLS-using code to do correct return code checks
 o an alloc-related call in the OpenSSL-using code didn't check the return value
 o curl_easy_duphandle() failed to duplicate cookies at times
 o missing TELNET timeout support in Windows builds
 o missing Curl_read() and write callback result checking in TELNET transfers
 o more ciphers enabled in libcurl built to use NSS
 o properly return an error code in curl_easy_recv
 o Sun compilers specific preprocessor block removed from curlbuild.h.dist
 o allow creation of four way fat libcurl Mac OS X Framework
 o several memory leaks in libcurl+NSS
 o improved the CURLOPT_NOBODY set to 0 confusions
 o persistent connections when doing FTP over a HTTP proxy
 o --libcurl bogus strings where other data was pointed to
 o crash related to FTP and "Re-used connection seems dead, get a new one"
 o CURLINFO_APPCONNECT_TIME with the multi interface
 o Enhanced upload speeds on Windows
 o TFTP problems after a failed transfer to the same host
 o improved out of the box TPF compatibility
 o HTTP PUT protocol line endings portions mangled from CRLF to CRCRLF
 o Rejected SSL session ids are killed properly (for OpenSSL and GnuTLS builds)
 o Deal with the TFTP OACK packet
 o fixed roff mistakes in man pages
 o use SOCKS proxy with the multi interface
 o fixed the Curl_getoff_all_pipelines SIGSEGV 
 o POST, NTLM and following a redirect hang
 o libcurl+NSS endless loop on incorrect password for private key
 o gzip decompression memory leak

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:

 Daniel Fandrich, Yang Tse, David James, Chris Deidun, Bill Egert,
 Andre Guibert de Bruet, Andreas Farber, Frank Hempel, Pierre Brico,
 Kamil Dudka, Jim Freeman, Daniel Johnson, Toshio Kuratomi, Martin Storsjo,
 Pramod Sharma, Gisle Vanem, Lenaic Lefever, Rainer Koenig, Sven Wegener,
 Tim Chen, Constantine Sapuntzakis, David McCreedy, Michael Smith,
 Colin Watson, Ebenezer Ikonne, Laurent Rabret, Michael Cronenworth,
 Balint Szilakszi

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