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Curl and libcurl 7.12.3
Public curl release number: 84
Releases counted from the very beginning: 111
Available command line options: 100
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 123
Number of public functions in libcurl: 46
Amount of public web site mirrors: 13
Number of known libcurl bindings: 29
This release includes the following changes:
o new configure options: --disable-cookies, --disable-crypto-auth and
--disable-verbose
o persistent ftp request improvements
o CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION and CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA added. If your app uses HTTP
Digest, NTLM or Negotiate authentication, you will most likely want to use
these
o -w time_redirect and num_redirects
o no longer uses libcurl.def for building on Windows, OS/2 and Netware
o builds on Windows CE
o request retrying, --retry and family added
o FTP 3rd party transfers with source and dest on the same host now works
o added CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS
This release includes the following bugfixes:
o configure works better with SSL libs in a "non-standard ld.so dir"
o curl-config --vernum zero prefixed
o bad memory access in the NTLM code
o EPSV on multi-homed servers now works correctly
o chunked-encoded transfers could get closed pre-maturely without error
o proxy CONNECT now default timeouts after 3600 seconds
o --disable-epsv and --disable-eprt are ignored when connecting to an IPv6 ftp
server
o no more extra progress meter newline output after each Location: followed
o HTTP PUT/POST with Digest, NTLM or Negotiate no longer uses HEAD
o now gracefully bails out when exceeding FD_SETSIZE file descriptors
o CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME works
o building with gssapi libs and hdeaders in the default dirs
o curl_getdate() parsing of dates later than year 2037 with 32 bit time_t
o curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket
o build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older
o huge POSTs on VMS
o configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles
o potential gzip decompress memory leak
o "-C - --fail" on a HTTP page already downloaded
o formposting a zero byte file
o use setlocale() for better IDN functionality by default
Other curl-related news since the previous public release:
o pycurl 7.12.2: http://pycurl.sf.net/
o TclCurl 0.12.2: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
o libcurl.NET 1.2: http://www.seasideresearch.com/downloads.html
o RCurl 0.5.1: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
o libcurl.mono 1.0:
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?libcurl-mono
This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
Peter Wullinger, Guillaume Arluison, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Mohun Biswas,
Tomas Pospisek, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Paul Nolan, Andres Garcia,
Tim Sneddon, Ian Gulliver, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre, Jeff Phillips,
Wojciech Zwiefka, David Phillips, Reinout van Schouwen, Maurice Barnum,
Richard Atterer, Rene Bernhardt, Matt Veenstra, Bryan Henderson, Ton Voon
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)