curl/RELEASE-NOTES
Daniel Stenberg 6d3701318d Allen Pulsifer provided a patch that makes libcurl set the expected download
size earlier when doing HTTP downloads, so that applications and the
progress meter etc know get the info earlier in the flow than before.
2007-08-11 21:05:13 +00:00

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Curl and libcurl 7.17.0
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: 41
Number of known libcurl bindings: 35
Number of contributors: 572
This release includes the following changes:
o support for OS/400 Secure Sockets Layer library
o curl_easy_setopt() now allocates strings passed to it
o SCP and SFTP support now requires libssh2 0.16 or later
o LDAP libraries are now linked "regularly" and not with dlopen
o HTTP transfers have the download size info "available" earlier
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
o FTPS data connection close
o AIX 4 and 5 get to use non-blocking sockets
o small POST with NTLM
o resumed file:// transfers
o CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE are 64 bit "clean"
o memory leak when handling compressed data streams from broken servers
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 Santiago, Chile
o http://curl.site2nd.org is a new mirror in Dallas, Texas, USA
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, Patrick Monnerat,
Jayesh A Shah, Greg Zavertnik, Peter O'Gorman, Greg Morse, Dmitriy Sergeyev,
Scott Cantor, Allen Pulsifer
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)