- Eduard Bloch filed the debian bug report #487567

(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487567) pointing out that
  libcurl used Content-Range: instead of Range when doing a range request with
  --head (CURLOPT_NOBODY). This is now fixed and test case 1032 was added to
  verify.

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o curl_multi_socket() socket callback fix for close/re-create sockets case
  o SCP or SFTP over socks proxy crashed
  o RC4-MD5 cipher now works with NSS-built libcurl
+ o range requests with --head are now done correctly
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -42,6 +43,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Lenny Rachitsky, Axel Tillequin, Arnaud Ebalard, Yang Tse, Dan Fandrich,
  Rob Crittenden, Dengminwen, Christopher Palow, Hans-Jurgen May,
- Phil Pellouchoud
+ Phil Pellouchoud, Eduard Bloch
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)