curl/RELEASE-NOTES
2004-04-15 07:52:39 +00:00

65 lines
3.0 KiB
Plaintext
Raw Blame History

Curl and libcurl 7.11.2. A bugfix release.
Public curl release number: 80
Releases counted from the very beginning: 107
Available command line options: 94
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 113
This release includes the following changes:
o removed maximum dir depth limit in the FTP code
o the ares build now requires c-ares 1.2.0 or later
o --tcp-nodelay and CURLOPT_TCP_NODELAY were added
o curl/curlver.h contains the libcurl version info now
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE set to CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6 will now cause a returned error
if the host only can resolve ipv4 addresses
o curl -4/-6 now actually sets the requested option in libcurl
o multi interface on Windows without ares works again
o improved resolution for the CURLINFO_*_TIME info variables
o getting only a 100 Continue response and nothing else, when talking HTTP,
is now treated as an error by libcurl
o fixed minor memory leak in libcurl for Windows when statically linked
o POST/PUT using Digest/NTLM/Negotiate (including anyauth) now work better
o --limit-rate with high speed rates is a lot more accurate now, and supports
limiting to speeds >2GB/sec on systems with Large File support.
o curl_strnqual.3 "refer-to" man page fix
o fixed a minor very old progress meter final update bug
o added checks for a working NI_WITHSCOPEID before that is used
o fixed a flaw that prevented ares name resolve timeouts to occur
o getting user name from http_proxy env variable works now
o fixed too early name resolve timeouts with ares
o HTTP Digest "re-negotiation" works now
o CURLOPT_FAILONERROR (-f/--fail) works with all kinds of authentication
o better thread-safety thanks to the internal strerror() replacement
o better thread-safety on AIX thanks to better function detection
o minor ipv6 build fix for windows
o the test suite runs fine with mingw-built curl
o the postit2.c example works now
o better error message when --interface fails on windows
o the progress meter now displays very long times better
o CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD with CURLOPT_NOBODY set TRUE now works
o passwords longer than 14 letters work with NTLM
o 'make netware' in the root dir works now
o builds fine on VMS again and even nicer than before
Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
o PycURL 7.11.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
o CURLHandle 1.9 was released: http://curlhandle.sourceforge.net/
o A curl module for the Q language was announced:
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/
o New German web mirror: http://curl.netmirror.org/
o c-ares 1.2.0 was released: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Thomas Schwinge, Marty Kuhrt, G<>nter Knauf, Kevin Roth, Glen Nakamura, Gisle
Vanem, Greg Hewgill, Joe Halpin, Tor Arntsen, Dirk Manske, Roy Shan, Mitz
Wark, Andr<64>s Garc<72>a, Robin Kay, Alan Pinstein, David Byron, Nathan O'Sullivan
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)